11-11-03 18:03
No 470334
a 250 gram bottle of phenylacetaldehyde (50% in isopropol alcohol) is mixed with the equivalent amount of MeNH2 dissolved in methanol @ 0 C. The solvent is then removed in rotovap to dryness. This is then immediately dissolved in ether and and the equivalent amount of MeMgBr is added. Any comments?
(Active Asperger Archivist)
11-11-03 21:07
No 470380
Is this what your are proposing to yield amphetamine?
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(Newbee)
11-12-03 08:01
No 470485
actually I think it would yield methampethamine, I am also wondering if instead of MeMgBr, one could use MeLi
(Active Asperger Archivist)
11-12-03 22:19
No 470607
The second equivalent might add to the nitrogen, but if it does actually do so, I see no reason that it won't dimethylate. It would probably be best to use one eq. to yield amphetamine and then mono-methylate using procedures found here and at Rhodium's.
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(Hive Bee)
11-13-03 07:37
No 470663
The methyl gringard does not add to the nitrogen, but to the carbon in the imine doublebond. This is what he's going to do: ../rhodium /meth.ph
(Newbee)
11-13-03 07:41
No 470664
yes that is what I am refering to, but I am wondering if MeLi can be substituted for the grignard, and what kind of conditions are used for MeLi, as in room temp or -78?
(Active Asperger Archivist)
11-13-03 20:42
No 470783
Yes, the Li comp will also work, and -78*C probably isn't necessary, but it should probably be kept well below 0*C.
(embarrassing, josef_k is absolutely right about the addition- I understood the addition to the imine, but didn't realize the rest- it should have been obvious )
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(Hive Bee)
11-15-03 07:52
No 471044
While you're at it you should try to use EtMgBr too, to get 1-phenyl-2-methylaminobutane. I don't think anyone here has made it yet?
(Hive Addict)
11-15-03 08:28
No 471050
SWIM is busy at the moment
Reports to follow soon...
Flight of the Bumble Bee (http://www.geocities.com/eric_vornoff/B
(Active Asperger Archivist)
11-15-03 12:36
No 471095
Yes, somebody has already made it. Although it was not me, I have tried it. Decent stimulant, though weak. good for a little bit of a mood lift and energy boost- much like caffiene, but stronger.
I've tried on several occassions to contact the person who had made it, but He/She has been gone without notice for the longest time.
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(Hive Bee)
11-15-03 12:54
No 471099
Maybe it should be called aephetamine, as in alpha-ethylphenethylamine.
If one was looking for a practical stimulant lacking the side-effects of caffeine while being milder and shorter lasting than plain amphetamine, could this be it?
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(Active Asperger Archivist)
11-16-03 23:06
No 471324
Depends on which side effects you are talking about. Caffience doesn't have a lot of side effects (at least not many serious, commonly encountered side effects). From experience, it leaves a good taste in the nose.
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(Hive Addict)
11-17-03 05:59
No 471367
Hehe, nice name, but the compound is already named butanamine in post Post 461403 (Chimimanie: "Ariadne and the Butanamines", Serious Chemistry)
We could use both names of course..
Flight of the Bumble Bee (http://www.geocities.com/eric_vornoff/B
(Hive Bee)
11-17-03 06:54
No 471375
I think, this would be the best
roger2003
(Hive Bee)
11-19-03 13:24
No 471815
(Rated as: good read)
Aurelius, to the best of my knowledge, nobody knows exactly what's happened to the bee you mention. Fingers crossed he's safe...
2-methylamino-1-phenylbutane is a pet project of mine, mainly because of it's legal status, but also because it's a cheap way to test new methods before wasting more valuable precursors.
I made it from the corresponding ephedrine analogue (which was made from benzene -> butyrophenone -> methcathinone analogue), but after a crappy workup put me in a really bad mood, I threw away the 6g impure salt which refused to precipitate after titration of the freebase... Hence I'm yet to bioassay it.
tropine: I'd be cautious if you're planning on using methyllithium instead of the weaker methylmagnesium halide, as it may well work as an efficient base, deprotonating the benzylic carbon of the phenylacetaldehyde methylimine. I've tried a Grignard with ethylmagnesium iodide on the similar benzyl cyanide, only to be left with a strange smelling orange goo, which I suspect is formed by deprotonation of the benzylic carbon of benzyl cyanide, and subsequent attack by this on another molecule of benzyl cyanide. The end result is a trimer: 6-benzyl-3,5-diphenyl-pyridine-2,4-diyld
I'm intrigued about 1-phenyl-2-pyrrolidinylbutane; very similar in structure to Prolintane.
Do you have any more details, roger? Specifically on effects, as the synthesis would be really easy, either from phenyl-2-butanone, or via reduction of the cathinone analogue 1-phenyl-2-(1-pyrrolidinyl)-1-butanone..Vitus, I'm not sure if you'll beat me to 2-methylamino-1-phenylbutane or not; I'll post details too, whenever I get there. From one method, I have some 1,2-epoxide which I'll hopefully be able to rearrange to phenyl-2-butanone (LiI was unsuccessful); whether that works or not, triethylaluminium on benzyl cyanide should do the job, as per a slight modification of P2P by Trimethylaluminium alkylation of Benzyl cyanide (../rhodium /phenyl
I'll post any relevant details once I retrieve the article.