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- From: CJHEMMIN@SCIENCE.watstar.uwaterloo.ca (Christopher Hemming)
- Date: Mon, 17 Oct 1994 18:47:02 GMT
- Newsgroups: alt.drugs.chemistry
- Subject: MMDA-4
-
- In PIHKAL, Shulgin discusses MMDA-4, 5-methoxy-2,3-methylenedioxyamphetamine
- and says it's synthesis ought to be fairly difficult. I sent him e-mail
- asking about this and he said it was a long time ago that he looked at it
- and there has been new chemistry developed since.
-
- Turning to chem abstracts, it turned out that the precursor
- 5-methoxy-2,3-methylenedioxybenzaldehyde has since become a known compound.
- I do have the ref, but not on me at the moment. It was an early 1980's
- paper, about '83-'84.
-
- The point is, the synthesis of the hitherto unknown and likely quite
- interesting MMDA-4 should now be a triviality.
-
- Shulgin reports in PIHKAL that 2,3,5-trimethoxyamphetamine is weakly active
- at the 80 mg level, I seem to recall.
-
- So, anyone got a lab :-)? In Canada, it would be a legal compound. In the
- USA it has apparently been explicitly scheduled even though it is unknown.
- In other countries, check your "designer drug" laws, I guess.
-
- I mention this just in case anyone finds it interesting. I know I did.
- No point really. Isn't that what this group is for :-) ?
-
- BTW, the synthesis of the benzaldehyde was from 5-methoxy-2,3-methylenedioxy
- bromobenzene, and the bromo was replaced by forming the phenyllithium using
- butyllithium, which was then quenched with DMF to introduce the formyl group.
-
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- --
- "Spinoza is the noblest and the most lovable of the great philosophers.
- Intellectually, some others have surpassed him, but ethically he is supreme.
- As a natural consequence, he was considered during his lifetime and for a
- century after his death, a man of appalling wickedness." -Bertrand Russell
-
-
- Date: Mon, 12 Dec 1994 17:38:36
- From: Christopher Hemming <CJHEMMIN@SCIENCE.watstar.uwaterloo.ca>
- To: Lamont Granquist <lamont@hyperreal.com>
- Cc: CJHEMMIN@SCIENCE.watstar.uwaterloo.ca
- Subject: MMDA-4
-
- While browsing through the archive at hyperreal.com I was interested to
- discover, in the MDMA directory, a post of mine to alt.drugs.chemistry
- that discussed the existence of a method for making the benzaldehyde
- precursor to MMDA-4. For completeness of info, you may wish to add that
- the reference for the synthesis of 5-MeO-2,3-MD-benzaldehyde is: Chem.
- Pharm. Bull., 1983, 31(9), pp. 3024-3038.
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