Hello everyone. Our first research session was dedicated to gathering data to sample interactions between CBD and its common solvents that make the drug more soluble in the body. We are testing 2 types of cyclodextrins (chemicals used to make CBD more soluble), randomly methylated beta-cyclodextrin and 2-hydroxypropyl beta-cyclodextrin. The solutions were loaded into 4 test tubes and inserted into the Bruker 500 NMR sampling machine for a spectroscopy test, which analyzes the chemical interactions in a sample on an atomic level. Between this meeting and the next, I plan to analyze and learn how to read spectroscopy and what the data and different peaks mean for the properties.