Limpet_Chicken
Bluelighter
FUBAR-can you ANY further information about that MeHg detection, even if it is as little as the original poster of the analysis mentioning methylmercury? because I'm following this up elsewhere, on a clandestine chemist's forum, and given the toxicity of MeHg and (2CH3)Hg+, any potential presence of either demands an analysis of the available data, given that aluminium amalgam reductive aminations are in widespread use in clandestine chemistry for synthesis of N-alkylamphetamines, it has to be determined whether or not its formed during the reaction or during fragmentation of the end product plus trace levels of ionic Hg (II) salts in a GC-MS. Alkylmercury are just SO toxic this can't be ignored, especially given the insidious, slow nature of methylmercury or dimethylmercury (Me2Hg ends up rapidly metabolized to MeHg in-vivo after ingestion), and its nature as a cumulative poison. Aluminium amalgam is very frequently used for reductive amination of 1-phenyl-2-propanones to the respective alkylamines, and the alkylmercury compounds are EXTREMELY toxic, so anything you can give me is useful.