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fructose P2P - 100% OTC !?!

« on: October 15, 2001, 03:30:00 PM »
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Okay now i grabbed yer attention. Sure it aint elegant. But it aint byzantine
either. Of course it's been covered before. Has to have been. But read on...

1.Oxidise tolulene to benzaldehyde.

C6H5CH3 ===(MnO2/ H2SO4 65%)===> C6H5CHO

2. Convert EtNO2 ===> CH3CH2NO2 (see rhodium's site. "Ethyl Nitrite...")

3. Condense benzaldehyde and nitroethane to yield

phenyl-2-nitropropene.

Now this is the step I aint sure about. You can do a length reduction with NaBH4
to the alkane, then with some other shit to the ketone, but Rhodium said in some
archive posts that...

"5) The above (P2NP) is reduced with Fe/HCl to give P2P."

P2P from tolulene, ethanol, NaNO2, H2SO4, MnO2, Fe, parrafin, HCl...cmon...it's
100% OTC!

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Antoncho Re: P2P - 100% OTC !?!

« Reply #1 on: October 15, 2001,
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04:50:00 PM »
 Step 2 in your synthesis is still a major problem.

One of my Russian friends reported the overall yield of ~7% from the procedure
with sodium ethyl sulfate from Rhodium's.

He was sloppy though. SWIM tried to repeat this and got smth more similar to
0% He wasn't that sloppy but still was sloppy. It's hard not to bee sloppy
when filtering Ca salts .

But now with a couple of patents that PolytheneSam gave me links to (deal
w/easy filtering), and the proc. of getting 98% ethylsulfuric acid from 95%
ethanol and H2SO4... I think that might bee a viable route. A really good one,
maybee.
Interested? I'll give you more info upon request.

As for the nitrite to nitro rearangement - it pretty much sucks, i'm speaking both
from SWIM's personal experience AND from the theory - it gives not more than
20% (in theory) yields - practically much less, and - did you ever actualy think of
what kind of apparatus one will have to construct for doing this?
I've tried to make one, and it's actually easy with some ingenuity , but IMHO not
quite worth the effort .

I strongly believe that ethylsulfate is the future, although SWIM hasn't checked it
yet - has to spend all his money for college tuition

BTW - amph/meth are very addictive, one really shouldn't make them at large
scale - for his own goodness's sake. Believe me, it is the wisdom.

Antoncho

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fructose Re: P2P - 100% OTC !?!

« Reply #2 on: October 16, 2001,
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02:24:00 AM »

Thanks Antoncho!!

Yeeeeesss. Ethyl nitrite route. Hmmmm. Upon review it definatelty looks a little
more sour than it did at first. Working with EtNO2 is a bitch for starters. It boils at
17C, so it looks ok as soon as you take it out of the freezer, but rapidly
evaporates. I had a look at the NaEtSO4 route and that looks really good! Very
simple apparatus and easy chemicals. The only problem being getting the
CaSO4 out of the mess. Did you try vacuum filtering over an absorbent cotton
pad? Alternativley could you not just produce the ethylsulphuric, then distill it
over, leaving Excess H2SO4. Wash it with dH2O, redistill, then add produce your
NaEtSO4 from a pure-ish sample? Without the need for Ca Salts?

And YES i would be interested in those patents/refs that you have?

46% yield with such easy precursors is rather good. Better than 0 - 20% .
Apart from step 2 how does the rest of the synth look, particularly step 5?

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Rhodium Re: P2P - 100% OTC !?!

« Reply #3 on: October 16, 2001,
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03:06:00 AM »

Yes, step 5 is covered on my page:

https://www.thevespiary.org/rhodium/Rhodium/chemistry/mdp2p.piperonal.html

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WizardX Re: P2P - 100% OTC !?!

« Reply #4 on: October 16, 2001,
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04:42:00 AM »

If you make phenyl-2-nitropropene then reduce it down to amphetamine. I don't

like the reduction/hydroloysis of phenyl-2-nitropropene using Fe/HCl to P2P.

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cilliersb Re: P2P - 100% OTC !?!

« Reply #5 on: October 16, 2001,
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11:28:00 AM »

In the reaction of Beta-NitroIsoEugenol with Vanillyl Methyl Ketone as product,

would a Al/Hg/MeAM yield 3-Methyl-4-Hydroxy-Meth or am I just being stupid?
This is not active becuase of that damn hydroxy, so what is the purpose of this
synth? I'm sure I'm missing something although the purpose of the second
(MDP2P) is clearly quite useful.

What's wrong with the Fe/HCl that you say you don't like it.

One more thing, has anyone figured out if the Pseudonitrosite reaction works for
IsoSaffy or are the rumors of it being an exception correct?
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zooligan Re: P2P - 100% OTC !?!

« Reply #6 on: October 16, 2001,
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03:01:00 PM »

has anyone figured out if the Pseudonitrosite reaction works for

IsoSaffy or are the rumors of it being an exception correct?

I think you might want to check out the thread starting with

Post 177886 (missing)

(Dr_Sister: "the POWER of pseudonitrosites!", Chemistry Discourse).

"High yeilding iso-safrole to MDP2NP pseudonitrosite proceedure

by Antibody2 02/2001

Having had a few sucessful dreams synthing TMA2 from asarone and PMA from
anethole via the pseudonitrosite route, antibody was delighted to find that iso-
safrole suffers from none of the yeild limiting factors suffered by either asarone,
which easily polymerizes during nitration or anethole whose pseudonitrosite is
difficult to hydroylse in satifactory yeilds. In two consecutive reactions with iso-
safrole near quantitaive yeilds of the pseudonitrosite were formed. This
pseudonitrosite is also hardier during hydolysis. The hydrolysis method outlined
below is gentler than that in common usage and was inspired by a Weiland ref
that Uemura came-up with and a re-read of TSII.

Nitrosation of iso-safrole
A 2l rb flask is charged with 2.5M NaNO2 (173g ) in 250mls dH2O. The flask is
placed an ice bath and the NaNO2 is dissolved with mag stirring. 0.5M freshly
distilled [1] iso-safrole (89g) was dissolved in 900mls diethyl ether (distilled from
zerostart starting fluid). This is added to the flask. A pressure equalized dropping
funnel charged with 1.25M H2SO4 in 500mls dH2O is placed in the rb flask. a
hose is attached to the top of the funnel leading out of doors. After contents had
been allowed time to cool. the H2SO4 solution was dripped in over 6 hours with
slow mag stirring, ice being replaced as necessary. Flask was then allowed to sit
for an additional 9 hours while ice was allowed to melt. During this step, a 6-7cm
layer of white spongy precipitate will form at the interface of the two layers.

The dropping funnel is removed, and the reaction mixture is stoppered, and shook
vigourously, with care being taken not to break flask with mag stir bar [2]. The
entire contents is gravity filtered using coffee filters and a 2l gasoline funnel. The
etherial layer and the the aqueous layers are saved for later [3]. The filter cake is
then scraped into a 2l beaker containing 1l dH2O and stirred with a spoon for a
couple minutes. What will happen is all the NaSO4 will settle at the bottom, while
all the pseudonitrosite will float in suspension. The water is decanted with the
suspended pseudonitrosite from the NaSO4 which can be saved for other uses if
desired.

The water layer with pseudonitrosites is vacuum filtered and washed with
additional dH2O. The filter cake can then be washed 2X with EtOH or more
expediently the filtercake is then dropped into a beaker containing 200mls EtOH
nand stirred throughly, and then vacuum filtered.

Yeild 0.49M pseudonitrosite of iso-safrole 98% (127g) as white crunchy nuggets

[4]

Hydrolysis of pseudonitrosite
A 2l beaker sitting in an ice bath is charged with mixture of 0.5M KOH (28g)
dissolved in 700mls EtOH. When mixture has reached 10°C the pseudonitrosite is
added portionwise over 10-15 minutes with care being taken not to allow
temperature to exceed 20°c. The is mag stirred vigourously until all
pseudonitrosite has gone into solution. While this is stirring prepare 500mls of 2M
aqueous HCl (approx 105mls 31% HCl and 395mls dH2O) and refrigerate. When
all the nitrosite is in solution it was vac filtered and the filtrate returned to the ice
bath and one tray of ice-cubes is added and cooled to 5°C. Then as 500mls cold
dH20 is added slowly the solutions goes from an umbra to an ochre color,the
chilled dilute HCl solution is added as a tiny stream to the stirring solution over
5-10 minutes. During the addition the solution becomes cloudy and most of the
 ice melts. The entire mixture is poured into a 4l wine jug containing 2l dH2O. And
the entire mixture is refrigerated for a couple hours. During which time the the
entire jug will transform into bright yellow crystal matrix, and probably a brilliant
yellow bottom oil layer, which is also the nitropropene in oil form. The crystals and
solution are decanted from the oil layer and vac filtered, the filtercake is dissolved
in 300-400mls boiling IPA to which the yellow oil layer is also added. Agitate
until all is in solution then allow to cool slowly [5] to room temperature when it
may be refrigerated for an additional hour to complete recrystalization. Then vac
filter, wash filter cake with dH2O, and place in a stoppered filter flask charged
with silica gel and attach to low vac (fridge compressor) overnight to desicate.

Yeild 0.36M 3,4 methylenedioxy-phenyl2nitropropene 73% (80g)

as bright yellow needles the texture of compressed glass wool insulation."

Followed by some discussion and notes, then kudos, and then minor tweaks.

"And if we don't get some cool rules ourselves, pronto, then we'll just be bogus
too!"
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Antibody2 Re: P2P - 100% OTC !?!

« Reply #7 on: October 16, 2001,
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04:56:00 PM »

if directions as printed (no solvent substitutions!!) are followwed, you will not
be disappointed.

"All those memories lost like rain..."

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cilliersb Re: P2P - 100% OTC !?!

« Reply #8 on: October 16, 2001,
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05:24:00 PM »

If there is no real difference in yield, I'd like to try Nitric Acid instead. The gassing
procedure takes care of that annoying Sodium Sulfate that has to be seperated.

Any ideas?
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zooligan Re: P2P - 100% OTC !?!

« Reply #9 on: October 16, 2001,
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08:01:00 PM »

AB,

My evil twin promises decent results using your "Lowdown on Pseudonitrosites"

procedure for asarone with clean toluene instead of ether...

Wonder how tol works for isosaffy???

 z

"And if we don't get some cool rules ourselves, pronto, then we'll just be bogus
too!"

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Antibody2 Re: P2P - 100% OTC !?!

« Reply #10 on: October 17, 2001,
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05:36:00 PM »

Zolligan - No Shit! i never triied toluene, i remembered in the "Low Down"

somebee, maybe foxy ran into problems with toluene, so i avoided it.

I do know this, asarone is much more difficult to nitrosate than isosafrole, if it

works for asarone, my guess would be that iso-safrole would work as well.

got a test tube and some iso handy? I'd like to hear the results.

Chillerb - using nitric is a lower yeilding synth from what i understand, and no one
has posted an optimized proceedure as yet, i would reccomend keep her on the
beathen path until, you have some confidence, then go bushwacking. If you read
the old posts, you will realize that the current derigeur method took months to
optimize, can you wait that long?

"All those memories lost like rain..."

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zooligan Re: P2P - 100% OTC !?!

« Reply #11 on: October 17, 2001,
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09:37:00 PM »

No shit. I distinctly remember telling you that back when you were working with
asarone. It was right before I sent you the Urushibara chapters.

Sorry to say that at the moment, I don't have any List I isosaffy lying around
. Perhaps my girlfriend's cousin's babysitter's auto mechanic does... I'll check
and get back to you...

"And if we don't get some cool rules ourselves, pronto, then we'll just be bogus
too!"
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joyman Re: P2P - 100% OTC !?!

« Reply #12 on: October 18, 2001,
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01:45:00 PM »

Right what about this as an alternative for otc p2p?

1) Heat alanine (amino acid from pharmacist) and benzaldehyde (almond essence
from supermarket) -> PPA + CO2
(note this is a name reaction)
Post 173131 (not existing)
 2) Steam distill PPA with sulfuric acid + AlCl3 -> p2p
(covered by patent)

Post 177857

(LaBTop: "Re: DETAILED METHODS for NON-CHEMISTS The Sequel !", Newbee
Forum)

What's the catch here?

Seems easy cheap, and very otc.
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uemura Re: P2P - 100% OTC !?!

« Reply #13 on: October 18, 2001,
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02:24:00 PM »

zooligan!
Uemura contributed in the 'low down..' thread with a small scale experiment using
toluene and anthole? There was some success with the nitrosite, but the
hydrolyse didn't work. So he never followed the toluene path. He agrees with
ab2: use ether!!!!!!

Carpe Diem
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zooligan Re: P2P - 100% OTC !?!

« Reply #14 on: October 18, 2001,
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03:51:00 PM »

How did you hydrolyze? 8% ethanolic KOH? Yields are not all that great but my
friends got nice yellow nitropropene crystals, so bright yellow it almost hurt to
look at them. Recrystallizing from warm EtOH gave needlelike translucent yellow
crystals. Sorry, no m.p. data....

"And if we don't get some cool rules ourselves, pronto, then we'll just be bogus
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uemura Re: P2P - 100% OTC !?!

« Reply #15 on: October 18, 2001,
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04:19:00 PM »

zooligan,
check the 'low down...' thread! Uemura really thinks he posted some infos. If you
don't find anything and you need more details, PM him and he may find perhaps
something useful in is lab notes.

Carpe Diem
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Aurelius Re: P2P - 100% OTC !?!

« Reply #16 on: October 19, 2001,
Guest 01:36:00 AM »

Joyman, beleive that you need a base in your heating to make that work (believe
it's a condesation rxn (?))

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joyman Re: P2P - 100% OTC !?!

« Reply #17 on: October 19, 2001,
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11:05:00 AM »

Aurelius,

Do you mean need a strong base for the first reaction?

Akabori, J Chem Soc Japan 64, 608 (1943)

Used n-methyl alanine and benzaldehyde to yield ephedrine.
been mentioned at the hive a couple of time

Found a German ref for the same reaction. From what i can tell (babel translated)
its just a matter of controlling the temperature (139c from memory)- yeilds were
ok. Really simple.

I spent a day trying to track down the japanese article at a couple of uni libraries
with no luck. If anyone wanted to look this up ... (not sure if its english or
japanese)

Using alanine would give ppa, distill with h2so4 -> p2p
I can by the inputs in kilos.
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joyman Re: P2P - 100% OTC !?!

« Reply #18 on: October 19, 2001,
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01:05:00 PM »

Name Reaction

http://www.pmf.ukim.edu.mk/PMF/Chemistry/reactions/akabori2.htm

I think this is pretty.

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zooligan Re: P2P - 100% OTC !?!

« Reply #19 on: October 19, 2001,
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02:42:00 PM »

Uemura really thinks he posted some infos.

 I was just asking because my evil twin had no probs at all with 8% KOH/EtOH.
Had to stir and heat a bit, but it turned out fine. Rextallization gave translucent
yellow needles..

"And if we don't get some cool rules ourselves, pronto, then we'll just be bogus
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