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It is also possible to make the condensation nitroalcohol with KOH, increasing the pH at 8 or 10. It is not necessary agitation because it is
dissolved.
http://www.orgsyn.org/orgsyn/pdfs/CV5P0833.pdf
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A reference for the the rambles of niggaknow from orgsynth . This is a reaction I was not aware of and is pretty interesting.
@niggaknow, if you want people to take you seriously try to express yourself more eloquently.
P.S. Why did you even bother editing that post twice?
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niggaknow
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Di bee da bomb!
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http://www.pat2pdf.org
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wa gwan
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I vaguely remember reading something about reacting alkanophenones with N-bromoalkylamines. So for example N-bromoethylamine would brominate and
ethylaminate propiophenone all in one pot without all the joys the two step reaction has to offer.
Anyone familiar with this?
It could be a patent or journal article but I've got the feeling it was in german if that helps.
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Nicodem
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You could have tried using the search engine:
https://sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=3963
PS: You can not use N-bromoethylamine, only the N-bromo secondary amines.
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It's not even from a patent, it was a literature entry.
| Quote: | Originally posted by stoichiometric_steve
you should try the reaction as described in the patent. there is very, VERY little conversion to the nitroalcohol under the conditions the authors
"used" (why does it all work so beautifully when typed up into a patent?). all you get is a thick, viscous mass of triethylamine - ethylnitronate.
this is supposed to react with benzaldehyde at -10°C, but surely not in a matter of a few hours - not without solvent and vigorous stirring! also,
there is no reasonable workup given.
is it even possible to distill the nitroalcohol without the risk of dehydration?
under these aspects, the propiophenone route looks much, much better, especially the "one-pot" route with DCM/NMP. |
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stoichiometric_steve
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Drunkguy
It's not even from a patent, it was a literature entry. |
that reference looks even more promising. if i ever have the opportunity to try it out, i will report it here. although i have my doubts with H2O as
solvent...
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wa gwan
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Nicodem
You could have tried using the search engine |
I could but I wasn't that interested. If I had been I'd have made of point of remembering it the first time I read it. 
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Propiophenone can be got to via known routes (from benzoic acid and propionic acid by the procedure of Granito & Schultz – attached), there are ref’s
from Psychokitty (mainly, although many worked on it, for example, here) on how to brominate propiophenone using Cupric Bromide to a-bromopropiophenone which could then be used in another known route (that of Hyde, Browning & Adams, also attached), ie. by
adding the a-bromopropiophenone to an 30% alcoholic solution of methylamine to give Methcathinone in fairly ordinary yields (57% cited), using Adam's
Catalyst, appropriately enough, they reduced that to racemic ephedrine/pseudoephedrine...
[img]https://www.sciencemadness.org/whisper/files.php?pid=165102&aid=8931[/img]
Given the difficulty involved in finding bromine in any useable quantity, it became necessary to examine whether any similar routes could be used with
chlorine. There is a series of journal articles of interest (one in particular, which is attached - Kosower, et al), which claims good yields of
a-chloropropiophenone via the Cupric Chloride chlorination of propiophenone. I am assuming that this could be utilized similarly to the a-bromo derivative to give Methcathinone
as well. I have also attached one of the MPV Reduction of Methcathinone papers (the one with the note on the ephedrine series, all that says is that
one shouldn’t try and use the bromohydrin (ie. the reduced product with methylamine – ie. use a modified version of that used by Hyde, et al). To top
all that off, I have also attached a paper in which Mandelate esters are catalytically reduced to the phenylacetic acid by refluxing with excess Raney
Nickel (wonder if precipitated Nickel/Alumina or Urushibara type would work?) in ethanol.
PS The only person I've seen who has claimed any real success with the production of propiophenone from Benzoic & Propionic acid + Iron salts, is
Organikum. Perhaps those who are interested might care to look through the Benzene from Benzoic acid threads for his (1) reaction vessel (2) procedure and (3) what he says vis-a-vis black iron oxide pigments. He was (maybe still is) an obnoxious prick at times, but he did KNOW his stuff
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Here is a procedure in which the authors (Patrick, McBee & Hass) prepare the relevant benzedrine derivative by displacement of
1-phenyl-2-chloropropane with either ammonia/methylamine, which is the pretty much the final link in the chain
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Isn't ephedrine like a schedule II controlled substance??
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No, but sales are tightly regulated and monitored
closely.
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