MDMA -and the products used to produce it.. Long term risk?

[scureto1]

A ketone can react with an amine (of course, since that's how the MDMA is made in the first place), but a ketone will not react with an insoluble amine salt. Not even if rhodium said it would. I don't need to look up how iminium ions are formed, I occasionally form them at my job.

 

[snafu]

While the 'Safrole to MDP2P to MDMA' method may involve aluminum and Hg salt, there are many many many methods that do not, like the 'Safrole to Bromo-safrole to MDMA' method, as well as others. Depending on cost, access and laws, manufacturers will choose which precursors and methods to use, not all M is made by that famous process. Palladium chloride is very expensive, dimethylformamide is getting to be more rare, although could be substituted with methanol, and there is one step in amalgamation that some would say is touchy and unsuitable for mass production. I don't think that method is used often in large scale production.

 

[Dmytry]

even though synth discussion is not allowed, the mercury amalgam is not the most common method. sodium borohydride is much cheaper and easier to get ahold of. also, most byproducts are removed during the hcl gassing -> acidification