nelsonB - 26-8-2016 at 19:52
so i saw some video about the decarboxylation some amine,
said to be extremely unplesant un term of odor,
i was wondering if anyone here ever smelled some 2-Mercaptoethylamine
or any stuff that would be close to know how much of a hell its must be to
have it around in its freebase form.
and in term of odor i was thinking maybe transforming the amine into a isocyanide would even make it more potent
PHILOU Zrealone - 27-8-2016 at 16:13
I have made ethylmercaptan from CH3-CH2-Br and NH2-CS-NH2 as a stink bomb for a friend's his school...the oily mix was dropped onto the old wooden
floor...and it stinked rotten onions-eggs for weeks 
I have some 2-mercaptoethanol and it smells like fart 
...it is used in biochemical labs.
Probably 2-mercaptoethylamine will be less of a trouble for the smel because since the -SH part is acidic and the -NH2 part is quite basic it must be
zwiterionic in nature just like glycine is (aminoacetic acid).
HS-CH2-CH2-NH2 <--==> (-)S-CH2-CH2-NH3(+)
Zwiterionic molecules tends to be much less volatile because of the attraction forces of the dipolar charges.