unodelacosa
Bluelighter
Well, sorta, but it's specifically not like lithium and ammonia, which is known as a Birch Reduction. Rather this is a nearly identical procedure to the Nagai Route from ephedrine to methamphetamine using red phosphorus and iodine to form hydroiodic acid in situ.Oh, absolutely. They said that people using it reek like gasoline or kerosene or whatever it smells like. You know a lot more about chemistry than I do, but yeah... it must be a very toxic product.
It's like people that make crystal meth with lithium batteries and fertilizer.
And it doesn't matter if you perform the Birch or the Nagai to convert ephedrine to meth – until post-reaction clean-up, they're both very toxic. But you already know this.