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Heating Benzeldehyde+L-Alanine=?

Punk - 5-5-2006 at 21:52

Festers 5th edition states that simply heating 50g bnz with 20g n-methyl-alanine @ 150`c untill co2 production stops will yeild 12 grams of pseudoephedrine/ephedrine isomers.

n-methyl-alanine appears to be near impossible to obtain and vary expensive but L-alanine is cheap and easy to obtain

It almost seems to good to be true if l-alanine would yeild a good starting material in such a easy to prepare manner.

unionised - 7-5-2006 at 00:59

A little googling found this
https://www.synthetikal.com/arch/forum/topic/topic_561.html