Halogens
***THIS POST IS NOT ABOUT DRUG MANUFACTURE, ONLY ANALYSIS OF METHODS AND STREET SAMPLES****
First, I have accidentally inhaled small concentrations of Br fumes, i could feel the effects of it for a little while, sort of a slight sedation with a headache. The smell is WORSE than chlorine, way way worse. Made my eyes burn as well, but it all went away.
Ive also had iodine containing molecules injected into veins before, though thats not EXACTLY the same thing as iodine since its part of a larger structure. I could feel that shit though, it was definitely CNS active.
Iodine is not a harmful molecule to your body, most things dont stay in elemental form in the body, especially halogens. You wont find elemental chlorine floating around in your blood, Br or I either.
There is, however, sodium Iodide in some kinds of salt sold at the store, this is NOT elemental iodine, however when NaI is disolved in water you have I- ions, which happens in your stomache but you arent getting a lot of it. And i highly doubt that the I- ions stay in that form very long considering all the acids etc in the stomach. It still is not elemental iodine in your table salt.
You wont have elemental iodine in the final product of 2CI because its NOT the last step in the manufacture, and usually the elemental form isnt used, though it can be. In one case, the protected phthalamide with the iodine already on it must be reduced back to the amine to make it 2CI. You would end up washing each step with IPA or similar and usually extracting with methylene chloride as well.
In the process you will destroy any iodine left if there was any, since in most cases something like sodium dithionite or thiosulphate would be used as a wash to react with the iodine to make it removable easily. hence , there shouldnt BE any iodine.
By the way, the halogens are all fairly large molecules, so since were playing with the idea anyway, hows this:
Phenethylamine weighs 121 amu
Iodine weighs 126 amu
the extra groups on 2ci weigh ~60 amu
2CI weighs 307 amu
so 181 amu of 2ci is the base molecule, while 126 amu of it is the iodine alone, so it makes up a LARGE part of its total size and weight. Hence for every molecule of 2CI, if the iodine DID break off you would have roughly 2/5ths or 40% of the original weight in iodine, IF IT DID break off, not saying it WILL, but if possile, you would have a substantial amount of it.