At least you would think so. Do they label it accordingly is the other question though. I can only stress how shocked I was when receiving a psychedelic substance from a reputable lab, a generous amount of it. According to NMR analysis the purity was very high, but nonetheless they skipped some very easy to perform cleaning procedures. I have consistently found non water soluble substances in the product, which can easily be avoided by dissolving the substance in water and filtering it. It's a very short and easy process. Remaining impurities could've been taken care of with some activated charcoal or further recrystallizations. These labs just don't give a flying fuck about consumer health, the more substance they can pump out in a day, the more money flows into their pockets.
Some of these labs also seem to limit themselves to very specific substances and fail to extend their offers to substances with structural differences, with such narrow specializations you could almost get the idea that the chemists behind the synthesis aren't very knowledgable when it comes to chemistry, but instead just built a cheap and very basic kitchen lab. I've never seen these labs from the inside, never talked to any of the responsible chemists, but there's no denying the quality often leaves room for improvement, even when talking about very reputable sources. It is remarkable that we see a lot of DOC, DOI and DON being produced which are the easiest three to synthesize in that group, but DOM seems to be rare as hell despite it's supposed superiority according to trip reports floating around. It makes me wonder: Is there less demand for DOM because the cost per dosage is higher or are these labs just very amateurish?
Don't get me wrong, I'm not disagreeing to what you said at about stereochemistry at all. If they should produce a racemate though, the separation process (while pretty simple with two enantiomers) isn't all that accurate. It depends on how many times you go through the process what the ratio of enantiomers will be in the end, if I am not mistaken.
These labs are basically made up of criminals, and do not necessarily contain able chemists. They export substances which they to be illegal in the countries of destination and are willing to mislabel them as something else. That isn't exactly the behaviour of professional chemists, but closer to what a professional criminal would do. Anyone can do a synthesis when taught by someone else. Think clandestine methamphetamine laboratories run by drug crazed rednecks (or is that a cliché?). You do not necessarily need much knowledge about what you are doing as long as you know what to do. This will reflect onto the quality of the product. You don't even have to know what an enantiomer is to perform such procdures, eventough I do not know how difficult an ethylphenidate synthesis is, what route they're chosing and what starting materials they have available.
In theory you are of course correct though. It would on the other hand make sense to produce a racemic product when a starting material is cheaper in that form. They would end up with the same amount of product, nmr analysis would not show the enantiomer composition, eventhough the effects would be diminished or different depending on the substance in question. Advantage for the lab in that case would be less production cost and higher profit. These are just speculations...
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Haha, I laughed out loud.
