MDMA from Methylone?

He was probably talking about the Clemmensen Reduction.

More: http://www.organic-chemistry.org/namedreactions/clemmensen-reduction.shtm

Yep, I think that's the one you'd want, particularly the Huang-Minlon mod. The essential chemicals I think would be particularly easy to acquire if using the modification.

For a little more on it: http://www.organic-chemistry.org/namedreactions/wolff-kishner-reduction.shtm

Any smarty-pantses out there have ideas on the ratios of chems here? How much solvent to use? What kind of glass setup would be needed? Hopefully not a distillation apparatus... eek. That puts this out of the range of most people's budgets right there...

 

wolff-kishner reduction?

:deadxmas:

 

Creating an alcohol might not be a bad thing, once you had MDephedrine several options are available. Just a matter of finding one that won't damage the MD ring.

 

I've only got highschool chemistry, too, but I've got a fumehood.

 

Here is Shulgin performing the Wolf-Kishner reduction (Huang-Minlon mod) to get 2,5-dimethoxy-1-ethylbenzene from 2,5-dimethoxyacetophenone.

 

... theres a muuuuuuuuuuuuuuch easier way to do this. which i came up with... and by came up with i mean found by spending hours reading articles and learning about electrophiles and aryl compounds and catylists.

anyways:
Methylone+H2 over a nickle (II) catylist.
cu/pd rainey nickle rhodium ext can all be used but the non nickle ones might fuck up the benzene ring into cyclohexane also pressure is needed apearently i dunno some sites dont specify and others say conflictign things. the only one im sure about is using a nickel silicon catylist at 90C.

 

Can anyone confirm this?

 

or simply a microwave

the same way you make pseudoephedrine to ephedrine

none of you seem to understand chemistry just about making drugs

and most of you dont even know how to do that!

and thats good yer

YES

 

what about either a Clemmensen or Wolff/Kischner reduction? both are used to make ketones into alkanes. i know Clemmensen rdxn is in acidic conditions and Wolff/Kischner is basic. but these might fuck with the diether bridge. this could also work making methcathinone into meth, if it works at all