Strings Follow Men At Work

Don’t scare a minute.

I’m in my experiment.  They are up scraps of theory, just as though.

In the first-order audiences, we ask the amphitheater not to show the gun.

 

Drug trafficking[edit]

Clandestine chemistry[edit]

Criminal organisations may generate significant income through the manufacture and trafficking of illicit drugs and their precursor chemicals. Increased involvement has resulted in larger and more sophisticated clandestine laboratories being detected in Australia. In 2008–09, a record 449 clandestine laboratories were detected in Australia (a 26 per cent increase from 2007–08). 67.7 per cent of clandestine laboratories continue to be detected in residential locations. Over two tonnes of precursor chemicals for the production of meth/amphetamines were detected at the Australian border in 2008–09, nearly double the weight detected in 2007–08. In 2008–09, clandestine laboratory detections increased across most jurisdictions, the largest occurring in Western Australia, which increased from 30 laboratories in 2007–08 to 78 in 2008–09, an increase of 160 per cent.^[72][73] In the context of the Australian Illicit Drug Report, a clandestine laboratory is any concealed place where chemicals are used to produce illicit drugs.^[74] Such laboratories range from crude, makeshift operations using simple processes to highly sophisticated operations using technically advanced facilities. They can be located virtually anywhere—in private residences, motel and hotel rooms, apartments, horse trailers, houseboats, boats, vehicles, buses, trucks, campgrounds and commercial establishments—and are usually very portable. Some clandestine laboratories use very simple processes such as extracting cannabis oil from plants using solvents; others use complex processes involving a number of chemicals and a range of equipment to manufacture drugs such as methylamphetamine and ecstasy. Clan labs are usually discovered after they have exploded.

Mainly clan labs manufacture methylamphetamine but other drugs produced in Australia and reported on in connection with clandestine laboratories are ecstasy, methcathinone, cannabis oil, ‘crack’ cocaine, pethidine and gamma-hydroxybutyrate (GHB, or fantasy). Because of the increase in the number of clandestine laboratories detected in Australia, it was determined that there was a need for better exchange of information between the various jurisdictions. As a result, in August 1997 the first Chemical Diversion Conference was held at the Australian Bureau of Criminal Intelligence; among other things, a categorisation of the various types of clandestine laboratories was developed. Initially there were three categories but a fourth has since been added. The categories are as follows:

• Category A—active (chemicals and equipment in use);
• Category B—stored/used (equipment or chemicals);
• Category C—stored/unused (equipment or chemicals);
• Category D—used site/evidence or admissions of a prior laboratory (ABCI 1998).

Clan lab activity may include but are not limited to strong unusual odours, traffic at extremely late hours, covered windows and reinforced doors, exhaust fans and pipes on windows, high security measures such as bars on windows and an accumulation of chemical containers and waste. On 13 April 2011 the Minister for Home Affairs and Justice launched the Clandestine Drug Laboratory Remediation Guidelines. These Guidelines provide a framework for regulatory authorities and environmental specialists to investigate and remediate sites that may have been contaminated due to being used as clandestine drug laboratories.^[75] Clan labs produce substances that are toxic, corrosive, explosive and carcinogenic. They can pose a significant threat to the health and safety of officers, the general public and the environment and hazards include:

• flammable and/or explosive atmosphere;
• acutely toxic atmospheres;
• leaking or damaged compressed gas cylinders;
• clan labs located in confined spaces;
• water reactive and spontaneous explosive chemicals;
• damaged and leaking chemical containers;
• electrical hazards and sources of ignition;
• reactions – in progress, hot, under pressure;
• incompatible chemical reactions; and,
• bombs and booby traps.

Clan labs in Perth The Police Commissioner (Karl O’Callaghan’s) son was involved in a clan lab explosion in March were a total of 5 people were injured. On 2 June a Gosnells house explodes, resulting in one man in hospital with severe burns. In 2010, 133 clan labs were dismantled. Of the clan labs discovered in 2010, 26 were in the cities of Armadale and Gosnells and the Shire of Serpentine-Jarrahdale. In Western Australia, Gosnells has proved to be the hotspot for drug manufacture, with six clan labs uncovered by police. Five labs were shut down in Armadale. Almost all drug labs were found to manufacture methlyamphetamine. The suburbs of Kelmscott, Huntingdale, Bedfordale and Southern River harboured two clan labs each until these were uncovered and shut down by officers. Clan labs have also been detected in Camillo, Maddington, Thornlie, Mundijong, Byford, Brookdale and Karrakup.

Ethyl Acetoacetate, Bromobenzene, to make Phenyl-2-Propanone

This is the meth total synthesis which does not go back steps to phenylacetic acid, in a long post on a dope website called Hip, or something.  I am linking it here to take you there.

I read it, or, skimmed it.  I notice a sodium metal + ethanol part, to make sodium ethoxide.  You notice that, since chemicals like that represent potential trouble.  You have to be able to squeak some product out, and, if none comes out, you have to investigate every assumption; one or more of them was a mistake.

With this one, the ideal of producing meth from smaller and untraceable fragments appears attainable.

“Acetoacetic ester” is the name of the synthesis, and ethyl acetoacetate (EAA) just means the ethyl ester of acetoacetic acid.  This acid has two neighboring carbonyl groups, like pyruvic acid.  Acetoacetate, notice, has ‘acet’ twice, for a relationship to acetic acid, a two-carbon carboxylic acid.  ‘Ethyl’  also denotes two carbons.  A methyl ketone, a formal derivative of acetone, is the product, and so is a natural way to make P2P, aka phenylacetone.

I don’t know how well it works.  It might be the old CIA method (which I wrote about), and, I am comparing methods I have never tried.

EAA might be on the DEA watch list of chemicals, so, it needs a synthesis.  These kinds of things are right for ton quantities deep in Mexico, but for sure, I don’t want to write an irrelevant blog where somewhere in the world someone has a “magical” meth synthesis I am clueless about.  I understand as of today that blogging is a rather phony deal because the world of publications is about something worth reading, not something worth doing (“is worth doing well”).  The ‘send’ button of an e-mail is re-labelled, “publish”.  This causes the consumer of computer products to subscribe to the illusion that he or she is a supplier.

317

I better quit, it’s late, before it gets to 917.  The chemical appears not to be watched on this list.

I checked the link, and caught another word for the same thing I didn’t use: Beta-keto esters, which also fits in nomenclature.  An ester has a carbonyl group, the two-bonded thing to oxygen (=O), but usu seen sticking up, and that carbon is zero, alpha to it is next to it, and beta (usu seen as the German, well, Greek, letter B), is next to that.  Now, P2P is a desired intermediate, and any other configuration is permanently hexed, can’t be made out of.  The phenyl ring is beta to the carbonyl in P2P.  Amphetamines are beta-phenyl ethylamines, where the zero carbon bears the amine, the ammonia moiety, the nitrogen, etc.  The common talk, words like “nitro-keto alcohol”, are the ones used in the 1950s by Gordon H. Alles of Caltech, who patented and made possible the amphetamine explosion in use.  I don’t know, some of it might go back to 1938.

487

Actually, the technology peaked at HI/red P, making a vitreous poison that smokes when you crush the crystals, using nothing but nutrients.  Nonsterile?  Naw, it’s heavy-metal toxins we do not have.  When I heard this I almost believed in miracles.  If miracles exist, this is one.  That’s all you gonna do.  We have set it to benefit us, who cares if it takes a long time, who cares if it’s expensive.  It’s the tweaker’s dream, not a commercial enterprise in order, teleologically, to rip off the customer by sacrificing his life he doesn’t even know.  It’s found us and we are intrinsically running our own route.  Look no further.  How do you make amphetamine?  Doesn’t matter, it’s a drug on the market.

610

We Were Talking About the Love Between Us All

We weren’t; oz just—

I was just—

freaking out.  I lost all this for a second, and it was good:

Yes. I think the man is holding a fifty-liter; the smaller ones are 22s. There is red phosphorus residue inside, and the center hole is flanged. The lid(s) available can have different numbers of different size standard taper female necks, or female spherical joints. A cheaper flask than that one would have ground glass:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_glass_joint
But this doesn’t show wrapping with teflon tape. TFE tape for plumbers is fine for a dollar, and a more expensive roll for labs is thicker and about 3/4″ wide. As soon as I buy ground glass, I wrap tape around the male joint. If it is stretched it sticks. I never use grease, but in education, we are told to use high-vaccuum grease for the same reason (to not let the pieces freeze together). We never leave eqpt assembled. Something must be used on every joint every time. Grease would just contaminate the product. In a lab course, you are not ingesting the chemicals, so grease is used. TFE tape is so thin it doesn’t interfere with the seal as long as it is laid flat in one layer. A scrap of paper will work for storage of new pieces without a trace of grease, when it is a stopper in a bottle, which is stored assembled. It is not recommended to put them together and try to pull them apart. They weld almost immediately.
The big flask can only lose the lid this way, and the condenser in the lid (or top). With a flange and matching top, a clamp with wing nuts around the circumference and a teflon gasket complete the joint. A large flanged flask is PROCESS SCALE, and lab coursework doesn’t prepare you for it. PILOT SCALE is large, but these terms are not in pharmaceuticals, but more refineries and chemical plants. Pharma has three sizes of lab, gram scale, kilo scale, and production scale.
Pouring out of a flask is only okay alone at the 12-L flask size, no larger. There are rigs for sale for pouring. They must hold the flask and heating mantle, sock style or tabletop are the two kinds of that; the rig will take the sock style. Big ones have two heating elements, so two $175 variable resisters are needed.
The red P method can be run in a single-neck flask, but the cheapest flask (with a small ground glass neck ) will not permit the hand to be put inside for cleaning. Cleaning is a must, to prevent incriminating traces. Use of a brush bent to reach upside down will rub the braided wire against the glass. Every flask has to have a cork ring sized accordingly so the round bottom doesn’t bang on the table when you set it down, or it doesn’t roll over and bang the lip. No two flasks can be stored together in a drawer, or they bang together when it’s opened, causing a star crack, maybe in both. Any flask with a star crack must be discarded. It won’t last like a windshield, you’re heating it. This big one is thicker glass, but if it were evacuated and the tech is up on a ladder, should he drop a pen out of his pocket, that could cause it to shatter. The highest death toll is a whole room full of 21-year olds who died in their sleep when the condenser water supply tubing relaxed and fell against the hot glass in the night. Our recipe passed around in the late ’80s had a cook time of a full day. It said, “can’t overcook”. We could set it up and start it, then leave it unwatched all night. But, we were sure the water pressure would not increase when nobody was using it, thereby popping off the tubing and allowing the system to heat unchecked to dryness, when the temp would go up and form the poisonous phosphene gas which escapes and kills. I have gone to some trouble to show the gas scrubber used to carry the trace phosphene down the drain with the condenser water. This amount when everything goes right is tolerable, giving you a nausea. I can do without any PH3, and I can do without ether (by using steam distillation), or any solvents, almost (a cup of acetone), to prevent burns. Cops don’t tell you this when they say this can be done by anyone with a high-school chem class, neither will DEA chemists, since these people are murderers.

Very small size equipment comes in more sizes than are in one system, while the standard taper system is foolproof. This standard taper is a decrease of one inch in diameter with ten inches of run. On my recent purchase, Chris of Amico said ground glass would only be sold to companies.
“What comany are you with now, Steve?”
“None. Private individual. Home laboratory. See that boy? He’s going to learn chemistry for fun.”
“We require a company check for ground glass.”
Every other SoCal supplier with “showroom open to the public” was compromised by their customers and smashed by the DEA. Myriad Industries closed its showroom, the owner of Tri-Ess Sciences dies in 2005, proving this was a labor of love, and it could not stay open after that. It was in Pasadena, which has more scientists per square foot than anywhere. It has Caltech and the unmanned space program of the US. Germany is cotemporaneous, and its black mark is 17 killed by stampeding at a million-person rave near Dusseldorf. The ecstasy produced in Europe is the sole reason for such gatherings. However, the US Congress is repeatedly attempting to make the Constitution illegal, using drugs as a pretext for establishing a world poice force. The first such incident was a Who concert in 1979 in Cinncinatti, with 11 trampled. “I’d walk over you to see the Who” reads a popular shirt of the time.

I went over. There won’t be any room for any more comments. Hell, lab glass is still for sale in Pas, in a surplus store on Colo Bl.

Every plating shop will go down, because there are no chemists. I liked to get a key and work at night. In the day I would show up and call OC Chemicals (just a moment)
THIS http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GWYE_enUS285US285&q=orange+county+chemicals+santa+gertrudes

DOWN TO HERE

I was just talking off the top of my head.  Now that is a lie.  I’m always talking-off the-top-of-my head.  Have you seen Siegfried and Roy?  They made $57.5 million annually.  They don’t have your mother bent over the hood of their car in the breakdown lane of the fwy, as they are queers.  My point is that nothing has ever been taught us in college.  What you need to do is to catch the smirk on a POS administrator (like that nigger Joe Watson, “chemist”), because of your thought process making the useless nature of your education that much sweeter for him.  Nothing of any consequence is done by imparting from one primate to another.  How are you going to learn?  Nothing that pays is ever taught in a classroom anywhere on the planet Earth.  He created the hatred in you and set you up and knocked you off with prejudice just because you hate him for who he is, and it is so unnecessary.  Students are irrelevant and there are no survivors.  Well am! Shazam!  Mr. Alchemy soaks himself in jizzum.

But it’s okay.  Don’t ever use a laptop, don’t use “Google Instant”.  It instantly clears the form you were filling out.  The cursor navigates with a mind of its own.  I love WORDPRESS, which to me contains the syllable, werp.  It didn’t still disappear just because of I started with a short reply and it went on, and on (and on).  It’s here, with its pic:

https://sbillinghurst.wordpress.com/2009/09/22/things-needed-to-make-methampetamine/

But going over to here, inch up (hitch up your britches, tie off, wait), up—who’s?  Yours.  and, then, the magilla thus:

https://sbillinghurst.wordpress.com/2009/09/22/things-needed-to-make-methampetamine/aptopix-mexico-drug-war-2009-7-27-21-10-0/

See?  They are different.  The comment never would have been seen.   It was a comment just on a click on the picture.  I made it into a post.  I don’t care if it is never seen.  I only care that it appeared to get erased, and I have a little more confidence in the new post screen form, so I moved.  I’ll move, but I like to prepare for war, not get exploited by trying to use a rifle grenade launcher that looks as straight as one of W. C. Fields’ golf clubs.  The minute you get there with a million other guys is not the time to have your piece jam in the mud.  Go back and shoot the weapons designer in his factory.

1461

A rifle grenade is a grenade that uses a rifle based launcher to permit a longer effective range than would be possible if the grenade was thrown by hand. The practice of projecting grenades with rifle-mounted launchers was first widely used during World War I and continues to the present, with the term ‘rifle grenade’ now encompassing many different types of payloads including high explosive, fragmentation, and anti-tank warheads as well as concussion, smoke, incendiary, and flare missiles. Many armies have replaced rifle grenades with dedicated grenade launchers.

Many armies indeed.  Is it a rifle or a grenade launcher?  It will do neither job well.  Did Audie Murphy use that?  Well I don’t know, but he got so he could jump in a trench and shoot everybody by fast-drawing his carbine rifle, swinging it up one handed, and then he switched to something used by the enemy.  The Jerries were his enemies, but the Americans were his frenemies.  The caption for above:

M7 grenade launcher with 22 mm grenade fitted on the end of an M1 Garand rifle.

What?  Is this of Niel Garos design?  Notice that’s just “niggers” disguised.

So I seen 1-2-3-4, as 12:34 romping and frolicking away.  Oh, a hour ago.  Is when I posted, to get the pretty time.  A post of literary throat-clearing is out there naow.

The Safe Lab stopper has to do with my recent threatening, so, I’ll not publish that name, or this other name.  Happy?  But, its manufacturer was the onliest mfr to punch into the business world from the meth world.  He specialized in glass threads, and you can see teflon threads here.  the red nut is delfin or delran or delsin something, poly-something, pent-something, a polyester.  That’s not teflon.  It costs a hundred and five dollars for one.    With you as a friend he gets busted (never mind).  The problem with the two dozen he gave (another nameless) us (they are $14), is that the 125-mL ground glass flat-bottom flasks used to store the extracts in a refrigerator on a cart all popped and sharded apart at the necks upon removal of this cart from coolidge.  See, AW COCK ASS glass and teflon JESUS have unlike coefficients of expansion.  The critical step is to screw the nut down until it touches the glass of the vessel you don’t want to fracture in a kind of Charles Bronson display of strength.  He rolled them into my hand and I took them to the Process Lab as a Trojan Horse—not the only time I’ve done that—as they were testing us; I thought we were testing them.  He said this last just as I reported back this incident, not to go along with the hand when—I don’t wish to say that it would have been nice to mention this earlier, … A big deal, no.  I have a big deal one.  I didn’t do that.  This was more funny, all the bottles breaking, we couldn’t figure it out, and it was time to rush the cart back into the reefer before they all broke.  But no, they all broke.

RJ told me this was how Dow Chemical started.  He must have meant BP, not Dal.  The stopper slips inside, for a hundred and five dollars.

1999

Scienceware Safe-Lab Stopper With Extracting Nut For Easy Stopper Removal; Standard Taper No.: 29/42

by Bel-Art

No customer reviews yet. Be the first.

Share

//

---

Price: $105.30   Special Offers Available   o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o

In Stock. Ships from and sold by Fisher Scientific.

Only 1 left in stock–order soon.

2104

I’m short some words.  I don’t care.  It said 1999 and that’s what omma go by, what?  Right.  Let me put it in park and order soon.  I am short some customers.  I’ll make something and put it out there, no disparagement intended, Nintendo.  Very soon.  Quite soon.  Checkbook reading Billinghurst Laboratory, Stephen Billinghurst C.F.O., on my business card, a plastic one that’ll chop cocaine.  Resurrect my business license in San Diego, which sucks ass.

I detect a glitch.  I’m going to get a big space, fix that heading now.

A mortar crew has some of the best guys on it.  Good people, know what I mean?  Twelve thirty-four.  I’m going to get a call to go pick up the boy from the bus stop.  I shouldn’t eat Oxycocone past nine at night, and I shouldn’t eat it past eight.  The beers are sold so you become an alcoholic.  I started at a 12-oz a day.  You can’t buy a 12-oz.  The least you can buy is the amount that gives you a buzz.  I didn’t start out wanting a buzz.  I don’t drink and use drugs for that, and now it is influencing my son.  “You don’t want a buzz?”  No, and I want the head caved in on this big dude, that stinking fuck.  I do not actualy mind if every young man in America is sticking a needle in his arm.  All those guys on skateboards, bicycles, they look sharp.  C’mere take a second.  And the girls!  Little Christians, a product of the religion, have n—have never got drunk.  Passioned woman, give up your vows.

(*****) little lady in the City of Night.  Another lost angel, …

—The Doors

doing me a big favor

2390

No more pix. shot my wad, or I’d—(What would you do, daddy?).  Why if she were my daighter, I’d—

“What would you do, Daddy?”

Suzy Creamcheese, LA woman, ranch dressing, sadist

The flasseses, accords were reached, I had a five-L jacketed flask, and that had a flange.  I made it up to the flange, picking up the teflon gasket alone at a place near Biola College that sold process eqpt.  Even without it, we can go back to whoever is the rep for Schott Glass around here.  Nigger is out of bubble gum again.  They go out of biz with me as a customer.  Gus sold me a lot of my stuff out of a storage unit; he’s a PhD, the OC.  Not my LN2 dewar flask ( a metal can), on your desire to really condense vapors.  A lot of my stuff that the expert wit said did not go to make meth.  Could not get the last piece to put the rotovap together, or the vac train, or the hydrogen supply.  Your problem is the chem sources (title of a book with every mfg fool in industry worldwide), that is, no pont making it without all the chems, and no safety being in possession of said chems, aka ‘precursors’.

Don’t even “make”.  Just on that last post alone is a bunch of experiments.  Do those, and then don’t let the left hand know what the right hand is doing.  I know, it says the same thing in the Bible, the Good Book.  The Holy Scripture.  Hey, the Holy fuckin’ Bible, son.  Jay am owna set yo eye on faiah.

Title written by Geo. Harrison, Beatles.

2666

By exposing part of the winding coils and making the secondary connection through a sliding brush, an almost continuously variable turns ratio can be obtained, allowing for very smooth control of voltage. Applicable only for relatively low voltage designs, this device is known as a variable AC transformer, or commonly by the trade name of Variac.

From 1934 to 2002, Variac was a U.S. trademark of General Radio for a variable autotransformer intended to conveniently vary the output voltage for a steady AC input voltage. In 2004, Instrument Service Equipment applied and obtained the Variac trademark for the same type of product.

2765

125 grams per mole iodine, 22.4 liters per mole at STP, ideal gas.  Charging a flask with a pound of I2 is going to rapidly decompose into two-fers of HI(g), final product; 454.4 g, divided by musician (Creedence), by 125, 8 (look it up), TI-30X2s solar calculator, $15, 454.4/128 = 3.55 x 10 to the one, or 35.5.  What are these?  ten to the zero, or straight-up 3.55 moles, Homes.  A mole is a handful.  A pound, is that 35 handfuls fool.  3.55 x 22.4 = 79.52 L.  The closest flask size to that is the hundred-year sentence (little shed holds a pair) of 72-L flasks.  To make a pound?  3:1 molar ratio reagent to precursor implies about a pound, I mean a mole. a mole of E is not a pound; I believe that is 200 g per mole, ephedrine HCl.  every 200g going in makes 180g meth coming out, some of it dirty.  No, alike to a pound of iodine, as big as your fist (no put-y in pant-y, (ulceration, hospital stay)), made 80 L, 1000 cc per L, ten cm on a side is 1000 cc.  Oh, I don’t do the third root on this.  Guesses off 80,000, third root, trying, first the zeroes.  five.  At six, three, two.  0.8 x 100, times itself twice more, 80x80x80=500,000.  Trying 60 cubed, yielding 216,000, …yeah.  43 it is.  40% of a meter, 43%, times 39.37 m/in.   1.69 of a foot, 1.69 ft.  A cube that big on a side, knowing a 28.32 L/cu.ft., then yeah, Petco ballpark says.  Can you put a 2-ft. cube inside this flask, 8 cubic feet?  I didn’t think so.  My 72 must yield a few tens of pounds.  80’s what we have to take care of, so 3.785 L/ gallon, times INVERSE 79.52 L,Ls cancel, Equaline 47.6, …Invers wha? Was on backwards.  Per gallon, want gallons.  79.52 / 3.785 = 21, divide again by -never mind, four fives I can see that.  Four five-gallon water bottles hold 80 L.  A one-L flask connected on the push-pull to a gas train of 4 water jugs is sized out by us when a lb of the blue solid is all turned into the harsh gas.

3089

Next time, contg. P (pressure).  PV = nRT (ideal gas law)

3099

bes

No, no no no no.  Remember two-fers?

[Added later.]

I can think of three factors of two.  A pint, 473 mL, is considered a pound.   Water has a density of one.  With less than 4% difference between 454.4  and 473, a pint of liquid should weigh 473 g.  The density of HI, 57%, is 1.6.  1.6 x 473 = 756.8 g.  There’s about a pint of water there, but there’s also 756.8 – 473 = 283.8 g of the total 454.4 g of iodine, not counting the H of HI, which is 3.5 g, one gram per mole times the number of moles.  This leaves 283.8 – 3.5 = 280.3 g of iodine.  280.3/454.4 = 0.617 = 61.7 %.  100 – 61.7 = 38.3.  Theoretically, as much as this percentage of the volume is all that is in the gas phase, with the rest dissolved in the water.  But, we do not make 57% HI as a constant-boiling distillate.  We generate a reagent in situ.  We had iodine solid wth a volume of a few ounces turning into 38.3% of the volume 79.52  liters, or 30.456 L, of gas above the liqud.  But, it’s out of equilibrium, so it develops pressure and we don’t want to lose it.

We had offsetting mistakes, so the apparatus is of the size I described.  The first error is that the diatomic molecule I2 turns into two molecules of HI, so the volume would be 160 L, twice the 79.52.  The second error is that when you take the atomic weight of iodine off the chart at 128 g, it takes two, so that the molecular weight of molecular 

3333

Yeah, that’s bad English.

…iodine is 2×128=256 g/mol.  One pound is only 454.4 g/256 g/mol= 1.775 mol.  1.775 molx22.4 L/mol=39.76 L as an ideal gas.  We won’t get iodine vapor in this; we’ll get HI gas.  If you put iodine crystals with aluminum powder and put a drop of water on  it, it’ll turn out purple smoke, so that’s molecular iodine vapor.  I2 is more reduced than HI.  Althgough the I- anion is present, it’s the largest, while H+ is the smallest.  So, it’s a soft acid.  It’s closer to I+ and H- than HCl is to CL+ and H-.  The H- anion is called hydride, and a character like this is why only HI and no other halogen acid will do this rxn.  Lewis acid theory, Bronsted-Lowry theory, Arrhenius theory (1903).  I2 is not more reduced than HI.  It’s the other way around.  The I in HI has an oxidation state of -1.  The oxidation state of an element is always zero.

I think the HI gas should be trapped in a cold finger as the liquid.  Then you have to get this liquid to dissolve in water.  -35.4 C is the HI bp.  Acetone/dry ice is a -78 C cooling bath.  I’d prefer dry ice/isopropanol to dry ice/acetone.  They’re the same temp, and so is dry ice/ethanol.  Solubility

3546

obtaining  iodine crystals from tincture

drug enforcement version of same

3556

One more large database.  This makes two for this post, which is #628.

Electrochemistry Encyclopedia.  The first one was experiments, and, I might locate ANIMATIONS of phase diagrams; I’ve hit on oxidation state diagrams and oxidation number, but, I can’t find that  exact diagram for iodine.  Other short series are solvent polarity (search for a post), and the Electrochemical Series, which orders elements by their replacement of each other by the half-cell reaction.  another is electronegativity, but that is one of Pauling’s inventions.  It isn’t fundamental.  It’s akin to properties.  See of it a  couple of posts back.  That is, we surmise that we can think of unlimited new things to measure, but being chemistry, the number of these things itself approaches a minimum, and that is how everything on the chart is all there is.

Electrosynthesis

The push-pull (usually used for refrigerant recovery in the HVAC dodge) we’re talking about up in  here above, by UF.

3712

Recipe #6: Methamphetamine Via Tosyl Chloride Reagent

Toluene sulfonyl chloride, or, Tosyl chloride, for short, which is abbreviated in structures as ‘-OTs’ once it is reacted, is considered a “protecting group”.  We would not use it because of bringing all the ingredients together once, pulling a cook, isolating the product, and skeedaddling with the goods.  If you use this, you can’t do that.

4-toluenesulfonyl chloride

I don’t know if you can use it.  However, the Merck Index has weighed in on the issue and has basically stated, “Yes, you can,” by publishing the method starting from phenylalanine I have called, “Recipe #3”.

PA, ephedrine or pseudoephedrine, or even a hypothetical side chain completely formed, differ from phenyl-2-propanone in that the stereochemistry can be specified in the starting material.  Methamphetamine has stereochemistry, and, only one isomer gets you high.  The option of when you incorporate it determines the strength of the product.  That is, if you opt not to separate isomers and wind up with racemic product, it will not be as strong and will be a reason that the method is not a first choice.

That being said, making dope calls for the kind of luck that maybe a good snake charmer has.  You have to flow with the rattlesnake.  As such, the purchase of a nice speed, which, ephedrine itself is already speedy, and, it is very clean, has become a giant risk, and, requires a team effort.  Teams don’t show me anything.  The total overall risk and cost in a heavy law-enforcement environment may make this synthesis the right choice.

It is not even really one synthesis.  MDMA via tosyl chloride intermediate, and Methyl Grignard Addition to Phenylacetaldehyde Methylimine,

They show!  They show more than we all know!  Excuse me, I am rocking out.  It’s a Journey song, where the singer goes, “He knew!  He knew more than me or you!  It was totally something new!”  So stupid, rhyming ‘knew’ with ‘new’.

These highly valuable historical internet discussions are located, I believe, on the same database, and are a kind of archive material.  But, the discussions are often one-sided on the internet.  You need a little perspective, and that can easily be provided by reading a new book.  Although the term, ‘state-of-the-art’ is popularized for the purpose of shifting a sucker-fish’s attention towards the avarice of having a shiny new machine, the original phrase is ‘well-versed in the art’.  A chemist working as a chemist is assumed to be up to speed, or, he is going to be repeating the work of others.

My chemist is just Hudlicky, student of my first synthesis professor, Wenkert.  And, there is a lot of enjoyment to be derived from a Wenkert.  He’s just not a world figure, like Pauling, or the top number one ball-buster freak from Harvard dominating the field for thirty-forty years, occupying a whole wing of a chemistry building, and leading an entourage of fifteen students long after they have degrees.  That’s Corey.

But, anyway, we are not all beholden to a brave new world where chemistry takes over and there is a place in it for everyone.  Let’s face it, these are the tools.  You do not want to be relegated to hanging out with these guys.

Among the desired promulgations worming chemistry further into our lives, upsetting governments, creating dependence, propping up governments, gassing Jews, destroying the air, water, and ozone layer, there is ever so much more scapegoating as things go wrong.  For that we have the poorer “classes” of people, especially funky in the Bhopal “disaster”.  My book on that is Five Past Midnight in Bhopal, but, I am getting off-track.  The section on ‘Protecting Groups’ is in Hudlicky, The Way of Synthesis, pg. ____.  But, whatever & wait:  There’s a book he recommends called Protecting Groups.

I don’t know if we should ignore what Hudlicky himself says and go right to that source constituting a whole book.  It is best to be warned off from a bad idea.  The bad idea with protecting groups is you have to react your starting material with the protecting reagent, which is a large molecule, then isolate an amount of substance, then throw half that weight away when you decompose the adduct and isolate the product, even if you did get a high-percentage yield.

That and some other things, like, how dangerous are the by-products unique to this procedure?

Of course, any method for XTC is simply made easier if used to make meth.  But, here, you have to realize, chemistry professors have a different motivation for trying something than the public has a deep need to be experimented upon.  So, chemists and their ilk tend to invent diseases they may one day cure.  The scientists are much better at the intensive (meaning internal) collusion promoting science and elitism, and modern armies win in conflicts with savages, so, the right-thinking and good people have been overwhelmed by evil and predatory movements to enslave and liquidate them.  Like, I am saying, ‘This is how you make meth.  Am I wrong?’  But, ask society about that, and they will be pissed off.  The chemistry establishment is consisting in a great unacknowledged and ulterior motive.  The only thing that makes a new procedure worthwhile is if it makes better speed!  So, since we are making better speed, not curing cancer, reading between the lines of a discussion on what is an ‘advantage’, like a cost advantage or an ease advantage, we spin into a nude sunrise – – – I mean, wait.  Okay.  The ‘novelty’ of a procedure is enough to get a PhD.  It has to be new.  That’s enough for science.  Even past that, when it is enough to address what society wants, scientists in the labs have never worked for society.  They have either made better reductive aminations or we took them for a ride.

I am getting a touch of conspiracy paranoia, so, I will stop.  A guy shot two Pentagon guards, and I guess he had fallen into that internet trap which creates new wackos all the time.  Here’s your starting material now, but get a clean product racemate.  The users can’t protect themselves.  I’d say do a column chromatography cleanup until DEA weighs in on the horrors of the by-products.

Phenylacetaldehyde.

You don’t go shopping around for different replacements of the tosyl chloride, since it is fed in here because of it being a chemical by-product of another process, making it cheap.  Somebody said $23/kg, but, I don’t know when they said that.  Keep an eye on the molecular weights.  Chemistry only works on moles, and they translate into widely differing masses.

My reasoning process started with Recipe #3, which has two protecting groups.  If the amine is already present in the molecule, establishing that you are going to target (+)- methamphetamine, that has to be protected with -BOC, or you will get the tosylate of that as well as of the other functionality, like the -OH of -COOH.  This procedure is trick because. depending on how you deprotect, you can get either amphetamine or methamphetamine.  They call that a procedure with “general utility”.

But, -OTs is a leaving group in an SN2 substitution reaction.  I have to see if that means a reversal of stereochemistry (later I’ll do that).

Really terrible leaving groups require extreme conditions, but, this chloride is already a nasty substance, and the methanesulfonyl chloride, likewise.  They did not mean that.  They only mean the electronic favorablity of a reaction makes it easy, not that you are going to stand over a bottle while you open it.  They assume you have a fume hood.  If you do, who breathes the air where it exhausts, a bunch of snitches?  You pull the sash down and get a good face velocity, so, a scrap of paper shoots right past you and up the duct.

The methyl magnesium grignard

H3CMgI

methyl magnesium iodide.  This has to be prepared.  So, I think these four things and their solvent requirements will make a batch of meth:

1. phenylacetaldehyde

2. methylamine

3. tosyl chloride

4. methylmagnesium iodide (in ether)

I do not think I am all right.  I lost some details.  I bet my eyes look confused.  That’s a bad sign.  I am about to be cruel to someone.  Hey, I don’t talk except to scream.

No, I guess it is 1 &4, making phenyl-2-propanol, then tosylation.  Then methylamine to give methamphetamine.

Now, where do you separate isomers, and, where is the one where you add TsCl to phenylacetaldehyde?

Acta Cumbactadis

1407

Phenylalanine Rhodium

[www.rhodium.ws] / [Chemistry Archive]

Synthesis of Dextroamphetamine Sulfate and Methamphetamine Hydrochloride from D-Phenylalanine

David B. Repke
Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences Vol. 67, No. 8, pp 1167-1168 (1978)

Abstract

Starting from D-phenylalanine, dextroamphetamine sulfate and methamphetamine hydrochloride were synthesized. The reaction sequence proceeds through three intermediates, in which the absolute configuration of the asymmetric carbon atom is changed but the relative configuration remains the same. Either product can be obtained from a common intermediate by altering the reductive conditions employed for the removal of a carbamate protecting group. Following initial observations on the sympathomimetic properties of amphetamine and related compounds^1-4, the racemate of amphetamine was introduced into clinical medicine for the relief of nasal congestion⁵. The (S)-(+)-isomers of amphetamine [dextroamphetamine (V)] and methamphetamine (VI) (Scheme I) have been used in the therapy of obesity, narcolepsy, parkinsonism, and certain behavioral disorders⁶. Considerable interest also has been generated in the central stimulant properties of these compounds⁷.

dl-α-Methylphenethylamine and D-α,N-dimethyl-phenethylamine have been prepared by several routes^4,8-12. The deuterium-labeled analogs of these compounds also have been synthesized^13,14. Karrer and Ehrhardt¹⁵ originally prepared V from D-phenylalanine via the N,O-di-p-toluenesulfonate derivative of II. Using a modification of that procedure, Gal¹⁶ recently synthesized the deuterium analog of V and the corresponding (R)-(-)-isomer for use as internal standards in GLC-mass spectral studies. An asymmetric synthesis of V also was described¹⁷.

An earlier report¹⁸ presented the synthesis of (R)-(-)-and (S)-(+)-α-methyltryptamine from the corresponding tryptophan isomers. The present work outlines the application of this method to another aromatic alpha-amino acid, phenylalanine.

The reaction sequence (Scheme I) is essentially the same as that used previously¹⁸. In contrast to the corresponding indole analog, the N-benzyloxycarbonyl-O-p-toluenesulfonyl intermediate (IV) is a stable, crystalline solid. The substitution of nitrogen with a carbamate group has the advantage of providing either the primary (V) or secondary (VI) amine, depending on the conditions employed for the reduction of IV. Although the preparation of N-methylamino acids by lithium aluminum hydride reduction of their N-benzyloxycarbonyl derivatives has been known for years¹⁹, this reaction has seldom been applied to other types of amines²⁰.

Experimental

(R)-(+)-2-Amino-3-phenylpropanol (II)

To a suspension of 1.3g (34 mmoles) of lithium aluminum hydride in 75 ml of anhydrous tetrahydrofuran was added, in portions, 2.1 g (12.7 mmoles) of D-phenylalanine. After the addition, the reaction mixture was refluxed for 20 min and cooled to room temperature. Then the complex and excess reagent were decomposed by dropwise addition of 2N aqueous sodium hydroxide and water. The white solids were collected by filtration and washed with 100 ml of tetrahydrofuran.

The filtrate and washings were combined and concentrated under reduced pressure. The residual clear oil slowly crystallized and was recrystallized from ethyl acetate-hexane, 1.75 g (91%), mp 90-91° [lit.²¹ mp 91-92°], [α]D 23.8° (c 1.0, ethanol) [lit.¹⁹ [α]D 24.6°].

(R)-(+)-N-(Benzyloxycarbonyl)-2-amino-3-phenylpropanol (III)

A mixture, of 1.5 g (9.9 mmoles) of II and 1.12 g (10.6 mmoles) of sodium carbonate in 25 ml of acetone and 25 ml of water was stirred at room temperature, and 1.5 ml (10.5 mmoles) of benzyl chloroformate was added. The reaction mixture was stirred for 3.0 hr, diluted with 50 ml of water, and acidified (to pH 2) with concentrated hydrochloric acid. The mixture was shaken with 300 ml of ethyl acetate, and the organic phase was washed with 100 ml of saturated aqueous sodium chloride. After drying (magnesium sulfate), the filtered organic solution was concentrated in vacuo. The product was crystallized from ethyl acetate-hexane, 1.5 g (55%), mp 91-92°C, [α]D 41.3° (c 1.0, ethanol).

(R)-(+)-N-(Benzyloxycarbonyl)-2-amino-3-phenylpropanol p-Toluenesulfonate (IV)

Compound III (1.25 g, 4.4 mmoles) and p-toluenesulfonyl chloride (955 mg, 5 mmoles) were dissolved in 100 ml of pyridine The solution was stored at room temperature with the exclusion of moisture for 4 days. Water (2.0 ml) was added; after 30 min, the solvent was distilled under reduced pressure. The residue was partitioned between 300 ml of ethyl acetate and 75 ml of saturated aqueous sodium bicarbonate, and the organic phase was dried (magnesium sulfate). After filtration of the drying agent and concentration of the filtrate, the residual semisolid was preparatively chromatographed on two 1-m x 20-cm glass plates coat with 750-um layers of silica gel GF, using 5% acetone in benzene as the developing solvent. The product band was removed from the plates and eluted with ethyl acetate. Concentration of the eluate afforded a clear syrup, which was crystallized from ethyl acetate-hexane, 985 mg (50%), mp 96-97°C, [α]D 29.7° (c 1.0, ethanol).

Dextroamphetamine [(S)-(+)-α-Methylphenethylamine] (V) Sulfate

Compound IV (250 mg, 0.568 mmole) and 100 mg of 10% Pd/C were mixed in 30 ml of absolute ethanol, and the reaction was shaken under 50 psi of hydrogen for 1.0 hr. The catalyst was removed by filtration (celite), and the filtrate was concentrated in vacuo. The residue was partitioned between 30 ml of 1N aqueous sodium hydroxide and 200 ml of ethyl acetate. The organic solution was washed with 50ml of water.

The dried (magnesium sulfate) solution was concentrated under reduced pressure (bath temperature of 25°C), and the oily residue was distilled in vacuo (Kugelrohr apparatus) at 0.05 mm and 40-60°. The clear distillate was dissolved in 3.0 ml of ether and carefully acidified (to pH 4) by addition of 0.2N H2SO4 in ethanol. The white solid was collected by filtration, washed with ether, and dried in vacuo to give 40 mg (38%), mp >300°, [α]D 20.1° (c 1.0, water) [lit.²² [α]D 21.5°]. The IR spectrum was identical to that reported for this compound²³.

Methamphetamine [(S)-(+)-α,N-Dimethylphenethylamine] (VI) Hydrochloride.

To a stirred suspension of 200 mg (5.26 mmol of lithium aluminum hydride in 5.0 ml of tetrahydrofuran was added a solution of 250 mg (0.568 mmole) of IV in 5.0 ml of tetrahydrofuran, the reaction mixture was refluxed for 30 min and cooled to room temperature and the complex was decomposed by careful addition of 2 N aqueous sodium hydroxide and water. After filtration of the white solids the filtrate was concentrated in vacuo. The residual oil was distilled in vacuo (Kugelrohr apparatus) at (0.05 mmHg and 40-60°C. The distillate was dissolved in 2.0 ml of ether, and the solution was acidified by addition of saturated hydrogen chloride in ether. The crystalline plates were collected by filtration, washed with ether, and dried in vacuo, yielding 65 mg (62%), mp 171-173°C [lit.⁹ mp 172°C, [α]D 15.1° (c 1.0, water) [lit.²⁴ [α]D 14-20°]. The IR spectrum was the same as that reported for this compound²³.

References

1. G. Piness, H. Miller, and G. A. Alles, J. Am. Med. Assoc., 94, 790 (1930).
2. G. A. Alles, J. Pharmacol., 47,339 (1933).
3. G. A. Alles and M. Prinzmetal, ibid., 48,161 (1933).
4. W. H. Hartung and J. C. Munch, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 53, 3, (1931).
5. C. D. Leake, “The Amphetamines, Their Actions and Uses” Charles C Thomas, Springfield, Ill., 1958.
6. “The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics,” 5th ed. Goodman and Gilman, Macmillan, New York, 1975
7. Weiss and V. G. Laties, Pharmacol. Rev., 14,1 (1962)
8. G. Edeleano, Chem. Ber., 20,616 (1887).
9. H. Emde, Helv. Chim. Acta, 12, 365 (1929).
10. G. A. Alles, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 54,271 (1932).
11. O. Y. Magidson and G. A. Garkusha, J. Gen. Chem., (USSR) 339 (1941); Chem. Abs., 35, 5868.
12. A. Larizza, G: Brancaccio, and A. Segre, J. Med. Chem 9, 996 (1966)
13. B. Lindeke and A. K. Cho, Acta Pharm. Suec 9, 363 (1972)
14. A. F. Fentiman; Jr., and R. L. Foltz, J. Labelled Compd. Radiopharm. 12, 69 (1976).
15. Karrer and K. Ehrhardt, Helv Chim Acta, 34 2202 (1951)
16. J: Gal, J. Labelled Compd. Radiopharm. 13, 3 (1977)
17. D. E: Nichols, CP. Barfknecht, D. B Rusterholz, J. Med. Chem. 16, 480 (1973).
18. D. B. Repke and W. J. Ferguson, J. Heterocycl Chem. 13, 775 (1976)
19. P. Karrer and B. J. R. Nicolaus, Helv. Chim. Acta 35, 1581 (1952)
20. H. E. Smith, E. P. Burrows, and F. M. Chen, J. Org. Chem. 1562 (1975).
21. J. B. Jones, D. W. Sneddon, and A. J. Lewis, Biochim.Biopharm. Acta, 341, 284 (1974).
22. J. Cymerman Craig, R. P. K. Chan, and S. K. Roy, Tetrahedron 23, 3573 (1967).
23. E. C. G. Clarke and J. Berle, “Isolation and Identification of Drugs,” Pharmaceutical Press, London, England, 1969.
24. “The Merck Index,” 8th ed., Merck & Co., Rahway, N.J., p. 332.

Methamphetamine Via Phenylalanine

This is “Hydride” on Wikipedia.  I was Googling, “Selective Hydride Reducing Agents”, and hoping that the reference section on the Wiki article would contain it.  This title (in quotes), is what would be called a “leading reference”, if that exists.  I need to call up my local Science Reference Librarian and ask where the free resource for locating citations is.  The subject was explored at a certain time in chemistry history.  You don’t go back to that time in history.  You trace the development since then by anyone who has improved upon it.  That’s usually Science Citation Index, but this is the internet age.

The entry in the Merck Index on Methamphetamine contains a reference to its synthesis using phenylalanine.  That’s what I call Recipe #3, but, I see from a quick search of this blog that I quit before making it accessible.

I am not exactly like Uncle Fester.  The differences are that he can control other websites, while I am not about to use the “SWIM” anti-bust technology or be cursed and banned from forums.  And, he believes in accommodating the law to have ways to manufacture.  I believe that the laws are not designed to keep dope from being made, sold, or used.  They are there to force the dope to be made in ever-larger quantities to increase our enslavement, exploitation, and our powerlessness to turn a corrupt society around.  It is just being made in other countries, using methods which lend themselves to organized crime.  Phenylalanine is one of these, because Nutra-Sweet is made from phenylalanine.

I am in agreement with Fester that the chemistry of yields from alternative sources of the carbon fragments due stereochemistry, and the various reagents’ effects on yield are important.  I also like laboratory improvements, called “Good Laboratory Practice (GLP cf Good Manufacturing Practice, GMP)”, on the recycling reagents aspect, or the use of minimal solvents, other “green” considerations, as well as the respect for property.  I do not respect large Nutra-Sweet plants in South America being turned into meth factories and think they should be bombed.

I don’t even have the Merck index article here.  I thought I did.  So, this is a quick post such that I can at least retrieve it on a search.  Fester posts it as,

quote

Rough times are causes for digging. Showing ID for sudafed is BS and all my neighbors are pissed off at the high prices they pay to get the pharmacist to wait on them for a box of sudafed. There should be several clandestine routes to a amphetamine…or better dexedrine..like electric reduction of the acid to the aldehyde and then zinc plus HCl to reduce the aldehyde to amphetamine…and there would be other ones..the problem is looking at J. Pharm. Sci. Vol.67 (1979)..it seems that the unnatural isomer…D-phenylalanine..will reduce to dex. The article says that the absolute configuration of the atom (attached to the amine) is changed by their procedure, but the relative configuration stays the same. I see the drawings, and it doesn’t look good for natural L-phenylalanine..but has anyone tried some reduction methods beside LAH?

unquote

That’s from one of the websites he recommends in his new book.  It is called, ‘Wetdreams’.  Then, I wasn’t going to get into a big discussion with him, but I was in my car, about to get a DUI, and it wouldn’t leave me alone.  You know, someone is on your mind, and no matter what you think, there’s another point of view, presumably their point of view.

See, I already don’t like Owsley Stanley.  Let’s face it.  Truthfully, ever since 1979-80, when America was about to be enamored and hammered by a love affair with cocaine, one Richard C. Hall was in the Midwest, in Columbus Ohio, and he was big in clandestine chemistry, and he got killed.

Now, I know John Cougar Mellencamp is a Midwest champion, and a “dreamer” is a clandestine chemist, so, here’s what he writes:

quote

Used to daydream in that small town
Another born romantic that’s me

But I’ve seen it all in a small town
Had myself a ball in a small town

unquote

It is another clue, so, I enter the text as the clues.  The dope mfg. enterprise has a demonic and extrasensory aspect to it, and I must give the devil his due.  It’s part of my history.  I don’t start when they start.  I start ’em where I find ’em.  It is a bit like having a kid.  You start them, but get married first.

No, I like Bruce Springsteen.  He’s not a bully, or a stupidhead, Nicholas.  He’s a Deadhead.  He’d be playing right alongside Jerry Garcia, onstage.  That’d be boss.

quote

Last night me and Kate we laid in bed
talking about getting out
Packing up our bags maybe heading south
I’m thirty-five we got a boy of our own now
Last night I sat him up behind the wheel and said son take a good look around
This is your hometown

unquote

Now we have touched on the South, the Northeast, and the Midwest.  Hell, that’s all of America.  Green Bay has a football team!  I didn’t know small hometowns had NFL teams.

858

Sherri Strange, Head of DEA Atlanta, seen in a 2006 video on meth, which also has a slide show of meth images which are positively pornographic.  The so-called “normal” or “upstanding”, “right”, segment of society frequently is responsible for the unwitting glorification of drugs and drug use. Even if I need drugs, I hardly want pictures of it.  These pictures make me want to go out and find the drugs.  Even the drugs make me choose a path in life I would not otherwise pick.  I’m not too stupid, I am far gone insane.  What I say is not take-it-or-leave-it.  I don’t even know if SS is still the one in charge.  As head of DEA Atlanta, she is something.  Once she leaves, her opinion means nuts.

Thanks go to whoever asks what the definition of a “three way script” is.  It is a movie script involving three characters, probably two men and a woman.  One man is the fool, spending his money on a woman who is having sex with another man.  That’s why I like prison.  You will be wooed.  I will fuck you face-to-face family style, throwing your legs up over your head.  I like them with a little blond mustasche.  We should have a love tryst.

1073

My ‘858’ I left there as the post got edited.  That could be BSB, and I am, so, I left it like it was.  I added six words.

Like trying to ignore Mr. Fester and having his persona shift from a website to my car radio, which places me ‘reactive’, the ESP is always reactive.  Proactive is when you get up and want to write.  I do not do that.  If I had an office I would not work there.  I went to college and all desire to study left me.  The last time before this I saw ESP, I had two vehicles in front of me, but one had a deadhead flag (made up by Owsley), and the other one had the “EAD” of DEADHEAD in it.  I knew that this could not be the ‘single force’ conspiracy of human intervention, so it is ESP.  All strange ESP-style psychic events lose their impact, i.  They require the participation of a single observer, ii. The results require multiple lines of evidence converging, and the documentation is missing some of them.  It must be even stranger than it seems.  It comes and goes without leaving a trace.

quote

One thing for certain it ain’t never gonna stop
When it all gets too heavy
That’s when they come and they go

…

When the street lights flicker bringing on the night
Well they’ll be slipping into darkness slipping out of sight
All through the midnight
Watch ’em come and watch ’em go
With only one thing in common
They got the fire down below.

unquote

See, that’s Bob Seger, another Midwest boy.  He makes it like it is sex, but that does leave a trace—all us.  He’s in a movie, Mask, as his songs, in a movie with biker meth.

quote

1373

Posted Thursday March 12, 2009

From WWD Issue 03/12/2009
LOS ANGELES Charles Mask Lewis, co-founder of the mixed martial arts clothing company Tapout, died in a car crash early Wednesday morning.

According to the Newport Beach Police Dept., Lewis was driving a red Ferrari that spun out of control along with a white Porsche on a quiet stretch of the beachside community around 1 a.m. Lewis car struck a curb and then a light pole. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

A female occupant who was ejected from the Ferrari was later transported to a hospital, where she is currently in stable condition. Police didnt confirm the womans identity.

Officials said the driver of the Porsche was Jeffrey Kirby, a 51-year-old resident of Costa Mesa, Calif. After fleeing the scene, Kirby and a female passenger in the Porsche were found a short distance away. Kirby was arrested for gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated. The unidentified female passenger was arrested for public intoxication and later released from custody.

1537

unquote

I hope you didn’t have somewhere to be; don’t go trying to make up time on the road.  I ruin my posts.  Oh, I forgot Haiti.

A nigger with no food won’t fart.

On Bob Seger, I am sure the various parts of the Midwest have their own pride, like if you was near a giant fresh-water lake.  Are they?  Anyway, the Bay City Rollers, a band, was named because a dart thrown at a map hit Bay City, Michigan.  And I was in Bay City, Michigan.  and, Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band were in Bay City that night.  I did not go.  Then, Adam Sandler’s line in Reign Over Me, is, “You’d get your ass kicked at a Seger concert.”  No.  A Rock-n-Roll concert is a ripoff. What is “getting laid”?  Isn’t that what 1,000 troops do when they hit town?  Do you want them dying at war without tasting of at least a bong hit?  The Who song is not even “Reign Over Me”.

Oh.  It’s “o’er”.   I didn’t know that.  That’s not ‘over’.  It’s the Who, and I am not a fan.  I’m a Beatles fan.  No.  I am not a fan because I don’t go to see phonies.

quote

Only love
Can make it rain
The way the beach is kissed by the sea.
Only love
Can make it rain
Like the sweat of lovers’
Laying in the fields.

Love, Reign o’er me.
Love, Reign o’er me, rain on me.

Only love
Can bring the rain
That makes you yearn to the sky.
Only love
Can bring the rain
That falls like tears from on high.

unquote

It is going to rain here pretty soon for six days; a soft rain in San Diego.  That’s the forecast, but, the news can slant it whichever way they feel like.  Maybe right now they want us to worry about extreme weather.  I will bet you it isn’t any six-days-of-rain.  It hasn’t even really started (Monday, 1:17 PM).

That’s from Quadrophenia.  We had quadrophonic stereos going on sale at the time.  My old friend Jeff Irvine said “It won’t work.  You only have two ears.”

Like watching ventriloquism on TV.  How can you hear him throw his voice?  I like hand grenades.  Nobody acts like the explosion is coming from somewhere else.  I think I saw a suicide bomber yesterday.  He looked like a terrorist, you know.  He was on his way somewhere else.  I said, “Bro, you have reached the marketplace.  This is a target-rich environment.  Let me just gather up my stuff and get on out of here.”

1969

“Start getting ready, Stephen.”

1973

Otto Snow Patent 2002 Amphetamine Syntheses Industrial

Here it is here. I did not like the legibility of the HTML version.  Please click the link and d/l the PDF.

otto snow pdf amph synth

Plus, then I uploaded ‘media’ and put a nother one of the same file there.

Analyze This

sa “I Killed Hunter S. Thompson”. Who’s it by? I don’t know offhand. I got it off the Bomp.

Frank Bompensiero: A Bad, Bad Boy
Judith Moore’s biography A Bad, Bad Boy on Mafia hitman and FBI informant Frank Bompensiero — whacked by the Los Angeles Mafia in 1977 — comes out on July 15. Allan May writes the following on Bompensiero for Crime Magazine:

Before turning FBI informant in 1967, Frank “the Bomp” Bompensiero had been the most feared Mafia hit man in Southern California for more than 30 years. Killing fellow mobsters was his specialty. His reward from the Los Angeles Mafia was to be made boss of San Diego. When his long-time friend Jimmy “The Weasel” Fratianno found out in 1976 that the Bomp had turned informant, it took the Mafia more than six months to get the hit on Bompensiero executed. Later, after Fratianno had transformed himself into a media event by becoming an FBI informant himself, he said during a television documentary in 1991 that Bompensiero “had buried more bones than could be found in the brontosaurus room of the Museum of Natural History.”

One Hundred Eighty-Seven is the Case.

187

I checked out your blog. You posted something I had written about reducing P2P, eh? Interesting.

I’m sorry to hear about your troubles with the wifey and with work. I’m about to go to sleep but I want to give you a little present first. From my old notes:
86 g Phenylacetic Acid
800 mL Acetic Anhydride (fresh)
43 g sodium acetate
Oven dried molecular sieves

In a three neck 1 L flask fitted with a nitrogen purge line and a thermometer, all above were quickly thrown in while under a stream of N2. The flask was then fitted with a water condenser with a drierite drying tube. The N2 purge was slowed to minimal positive pressure and the oil bath heated for 46 hrs to ~170°C, such that rxn temp was ~145°C. Reflux and gas evolution was slight. Color slowly went from clear to yellow. Afterward, solution was rotovaped down to about 300-400 mL dissolved in ~200 mL DCM and stirred vigorously with and excess of 4M NaOH, until no more hydrolysis (noted by vigorous bubbling) occurred. Organic layer separated, aqueous extracted 3 x with DCM, pooled extracts dried w/ mag sulfate, filtered (which also got rid of some insoluble junk) and rotovaped off DCM. Yield 64.4 g (76%), very pure by 1H-NMR and TLC.

Reasoning for higher yield: fresh (not wet) AA, continuous positive pressure of N2, drying tube, and mol seives = very dry rxn

I believe Potassium Acetate is better than Sodium Acetate for this reaction. I’d have to check my notes on that one.

Take care. Talk to you later.

I can’t do this, Bomp. I have too many little quirks. The pages won’t load fast enough. I have to run on the treadmill. Les Miserables is playing on TV. What’s worst, I’m psychic. A hat floated down the Paris sewer. I shop for hats last night. I think about crystal. Somebody says ‘crystal’, and, I look at them. There’s nothing there. Their eyes are blank. They are running a blank. They mean glass. Arrrrgh! Leaded cut glass. Nothing but miserable cut glass. I’m talking to them and they are just an image on TV. Now they are a beret, again in the sewer. They are not only crazy, they are crazy in French, like the song, “Psycho Killer”. The television is sending me messages. Yes, yes? What is it I am supposed to do? Get home? Ah, I might have a problem with that. There’s a TRO. You misunderstood, voices in my head. What I wanted was something to click to get shot back to my home page. A little house? Yeah, you’re slipping. Watch it. You know that I count on you to say what I should do, and I will do whatever you say, so, there it is there. I exist to carry out the orders. Transmit the message. Hope for an answer some day. Maybe there’s a guy wearing the beret. All you can see on top of the swirling sewer water is his hat. He’s under there. I don’t feel like that. I feel like a guy beset with fleas. It is the same number of fleas, but as they all climb toward my head to stay out of the rising water, it gets to be quite a wave of biting fleas. Oh, some of them fly.

No, I had a title, Richard: Analyze This. Oops. I said your name. Then I looked for a guy smoking a cigarette, and I saw a guy smoking a cigarette, Google Images has hundreds of them. But, right here is one of a guy, and it looks like Robert DiNiro, diNiro, in a surf bar, because you have your gays, . . .where am I going with this? I don’t have time to make a whole camp and kitschy post involving queerdom. That’s for another time. Anyway, in a chem school, we really want the images of the people right now. Using images to sell magazines is not the way. But, sometimes I do choose the younger images of the same people. Not today. Why do I imagine learning as the young’s thing? Learning to make meth will destroy you! Better you should be old, with less life to lose, right? Notice Chancellor Hitler was in his fifties. I’m reading about Caligula.
894
That made ‘Caligula’ a number.
That’s all the evils I have, guys. I am beyond good and evil. We have people who are living, but people who are dead, taking Lavoisier as an example, we must post a young Lavoisier since chemistry was young, right? No, don’t be ridiculous. What a stupendous bias. We’ll be obtaining his genome before long and posting the code for the expression of the strands of his massive brain so you’ll know who I’m talking about. There people are just smokers. Am I going to post them smoking their finest cigarette? It is highly subjective. Ain’t gonna do it. It really galls me I have to post diNiro to prove my point that this guy looks like him. What’s that? The voices say to do it.

Aw, look at these shitty spectra. This is a car wreck. I’m not the one to say I’m going too fast, though. I don’t even know why people die and come back to life. They all look the same when they are dying. You can’t tell Able from Baker. Beyond psychic, to the metaparanormal, we have, …something. Let’s face it, I forgot. I think it was just something I had to remember to write after I made a point about the paranormal, because those are extremely hard to describe under the best of circumstances. There’s no exact language and they slip away. We want to put down the world as it is now, and the laboratory notebook looks stupid with dirt samples taped inside the pages.
1152
Yeah, I am late. How do you describe fucking matter, space and time correctly, with discoverers in it? I am post-metaparanormal (post-menopausal, I know). People were dead. I was on a roll.

I’ll just go all stinking, then. I’ll be fashionably late, like I’m on meth. They’re all on meth these days. This pitiful NMR spectrum shows the acetophenone protons; there’s two kinds, but the bunch on the left are the three methyl protons, and yes, they didn’t have P2P. It would change to the five of ethyl. These three are split. Shifted downfield by resonance stabilization are the five aromatic protons in acetophenone . Now, how is homeboy showing no contamination? What did we have? IR, NMR, and Mass Spec. Well, IR, I guess. But, IR is going to show a huge water peak at 3000 wavenumbers, and water is not a significant contaminant. What was this? We have to predict the likely contamination if the reaction goes too far or doesn’t react, so, we do need library spectra from the starting materials, and I l . . .just got a call from Dax. I can’t believe that guy giving me a refund. What a moron. I’m not going to National City without a shower. I can’t get off the Internet.

I’ve got a rogue piece of code. This is all going to be in italics. Don’t use a computer to compare spectra for you; that’s all I can say. I can’t teach a whole course in spectrometric identification of organic compounds in an hour. What a disappointment. I was just going to teach you what you need to make speed. Try not to blow yourselves up until I fix this.

1430

Preforming I2 + RP + E + Water

I like to read a procedure in a book which will work, because if all the liquids you are going to pour in there will overfill the flask, they should tell you that.

I have never seen the good lab procedure which has what you need to do in the event that HI is no longer available. When I was in prison someone said that the iodine went in last. In any case you do not just put everything together in a flask or it generates HI gas and that comes out of the apparatus. Yes, HI 57% is nothing more than HI gas dissolved in water, but when you make it in situ, it doesn’t just dissolve due to being made in water. It escapes.

So, I did it once, and all the glass joints popped open. It took awhile to get them closed, and I lost material. The yield was low. It is probably true that the evolution of gas is dependent upon the rate iodine crystals are added. You do not add them one at a time since you’d have to keep the apparatus open to do that, but maybe you limit the amount to a thimblefull at anyone time. I bet you don’t add heat until it is all in, and you probably have to pick it up and swirl to agitate (carefully), since it won’t be boiling, which would agitate it. Hey, sorry if I am taking a lot of words to say anything. I will get to important things once in a while.

258

The DEA lost three agents in Afghanistan today. Moment of silence.

I saw, rather, the introduction of the push-pull method, instead of the definitive “start with this and add this”. I’d want to know what happens in all the ways it could be done, because eventually, it all has to be found together happily boiling. The disappointing source is Feiser and Feiser, which states merely that “iodine, phosphorous and water” form the reagent. If it was Org Syn it would have stated. And, there may be an Org Syn Prep using these things, too. The whole point is that I want to see everything in there ready to receive the suzy before I dump it in, but if it’s going to explode on me, using the suzy to keep the I2/P physically separated when you get that wet, and having the suzy there to absorb some escaping gas to do its thing, might be best.

So, iodine and water won’t explode. Iodine and red phosphorus won’t explode. But, a drop of water on iodine and red phosphorus explodes. And, there is water in your phosphorus, to keep it from spontaneously igniting in storage (but it is not in a can in this state. It is in glass).

Then, I was worried about the whole thing swimming around in too much water for several reasons: It takes up too much room and all that liquid has to be processed, it makes the HI concentration weak, and we don’t know if a concentrated acid is required to effect the transformation (like, whether it only goes at a pH below 1.0 or whatever), and cold, dilute reaction media just upsets the balance between desired product and by-product. We just don’t know. Nobody knows.

But, let’s say that if you start with the majority of the water, leaving out only enough to rinse some iodine into the medium, then have E or suzy plus red phosphorus in there, in a large flask with an efficient condenser, you could uncork—add iodine—recork, look at it through a face shield, swirl cautiously, then take a deep breath—uncork—add some iodine—recork—turn away—let it out, etc. Huh? Could you? You’ll get tired. If you get HF by mistake (or by the famous DEA slipping it to you), or get sloppy, you could get pulmonary edema and die drowning in your sleep. Or not; I’m just scaring you.

Go to Bit Torrent and stop trying to download Zombieland and just get every word Uncle Fester has written on the subject. Should download in about 35 seconds.

681

The same guy who said to dump in aliquots of iodine also said to have a syringe rigged up with a tube going to the bottom of the flask, same to be charged with hydrogen peroxide. Now I know of a Mr. Zazi who obtains 3% H2O2 from a beauty supply in bulk, but must have then encountered difficulty concentrating it to the required percentage, and no wonder. He had to get online and send some panicky e-mails and the FBI was all over him. He wasn’t making dope. What was he making? Acetone peroxide. Well, he was trying to make it. What an amateur. Him and that shoe bomber are Tweedledum and Tweedledee. How we get this is to say we are making rockets; there’s a legitimate 35% H2O2 rocket. You should try 60%. I’ve seen 35% H2O2. It comes in a five-liter jug. 2H2O2 —–> 2H2O + O2. You’ve already got water in there and oxygen is a gas. It just leaves. I should have asked the guy if he made so much dope how come he was in prison, but I was preoccupied wondering if it was okay to put oxygen into a reducing medium. Now I see: The introduction and decomposition of some inert ingredient is just to accomplish the agitation without picking up the flask.

So why not just pump in air? Did you get your license at Sears? This is a liquid. What happens if a liquid backs up against a liquid? Duh! What happens if it backs up against a gas? Well, Norton, it acts like the gas isn’t there. If given enough time, … ask it to hold on while you take a few drags off a cigarette. It’s your break time. We have a mop, right?

970

Legitimate Way to Make Meth

There is no legitimate way to make meth. Ephedrine is not even considered an alkaloid, and is thus not a proper subject for study leading to the PhD. Pluto is not considered a planet. Maybe it can’t sweep everything out of its way. Similarly, ephedrine is too simple. It is an amino alcohol. The simplest amino acid—alanine; it does not even have a benzene ring (the “benzenoid moiety”). Phenylalanine makes meth. I will be uploading the work of Gordon H. Alles from the 1930s in which he may be talking about the nitro keto alchohol, as an asshole. Regardless, I am an asshole and this has my face and my degree and the way I write so you can tell that I am, and worse.

There is only a legitimate way to show how to make meth. Pretty soon, we will declare Mexico a narco-state and then Mexico won’t be a legitimate country. They make it there.

Figure out a way to make the correct stereochemical antipode of meth uncontaminated by by-products and I’ll see to it you get the Nobel Prize!

You can run but you can’t hide.

Amphetamine is already sold optically pure in order to carry out the separation of enantiomers. This is done by reversibly binding the amphetamine as, say, dexedrine, with a racemate. And, the S,S will then be shaped much more curly than the S,R and won’t dissolve in the same shit.

Proprietary labs with numbers instead of chemical identities on the labels, to hold trade secrets, violate the basic OSHA notion of a safe workplace. You can’t work with poison and not be told, and, in general, we don’t. “Nickel brightener” is saccharine. If you get purple spots on your skin or smell garlic, you’re fucked. Definitely. We have consistently picked the ones that get you high whenever there was a choice. Of course, ninhydrin for fingerprints in the crime lab has caused all old criminologists to have to have their balls cut off. They are now doing methyl methacrylate(“Superglue”), and packaging it up like Dog the Bounty Hunter does economy-size Pepper Spray in a windshield cleaner bottle. It’s part of good laboratory practice. We run a small sample for identification and dump that sample in a special place and recover the material, snorting it for a good buzz. I like to shuffle through papers while my head is clearing from a hellacious rush. Never trust chloroform just because you’ve done ether. You’ll fall to the floor, but it won’t be on your breath.

Note to self: What is it I need to add to the “amines that make meth”? I know one I left out is amm. formate. I put in N-methyl formamide. That’s better for X I think, in a Leukart/Wallach. I don’t think formaldoxime is anything, except to make a liquid into a solid form so it can be handled easier or purified. The formation of a protected amine, which is not an amine (one might be an amide), just so a legitimate chemical species not on the DEA Watch List is the item of commerce, is an old trick (see a book called Blow for an excellent method of adulteration which will kill your customers while makng you money, if you wish to try following the novelist in the interfacing of fiction with new political ideas such as freedom of speech).

I can’t find my notes I made in jail. Amm. formate was one. I found a note:

April 11, 1318

Teacher:

My son is swimming in the Rennaisance and won’t be able to attend the Medieval Assembly.

Parent

(I don’t know what it means. Don’t even check the spelling)

The fuckin “bisulfite addition product” is readily made once you get a source of P2P, but, come to find out that making that doesn’t reduce the smell.

572

636 and imagine fixing a 572 out of it.
643

WordPress! You fucking bastards; I’m putting you on notice with this ‘png’ shit. These pictures better upload. I need chemicals to make a point. You and “wiki commons” better solve your little problem and LIGHT THIS CANDLE fucks.

set for assembler, not reader

No prob; they saw me coming (hope not). png is an accetable file extension. This is going to be acrylic acid, an olefin, vinyl chloride, allyl choride, chlorinated olefins—sure you want to work with these small molecules? Here:

Allyl chloride; they make tons of it in the kind of chemical plants which are the same size as a small oil refinery. They give it away for free through the Sample Department; you are in Applied Chemistry trying to develop new consumer products. It makes P2. The other ingredient is benzene, the world’s #2 or #3 chemical after polyethylene and sulfuric acid. The catalyst is iron-based. I’d do it if I was also sweeping everybody off the streets in O.B. and concentrating them:

<

Just starting to list over. It is just as easy for you. Don’t pay attention. Just try it and it’ll be real easy, ’cause you won’t have to be old.

852 midcentury

One thing is the same thing turned around, “acrylic” is on the left, “acid” is on the right, and it is acrylic acid, and that is good, like putting yor finger under the word you are reading. Turned the other way, with rather than what type of acid it is but what carbon fragment is being shoved into the thing on the right, it works (and is only 2D). The last one is toxicker than vinyl chloride monomer, but living in the shadow of a chemical plant means this escaping monomer gas will be the cause of death (or as I like to call it, “that”).

959

The legitimate way is to put “hydriodic acid” in a song. Bruce Springsteen does that.

“Sinalo Cartayo”

Bob Seeger’s just as jingoistic: “Bomp de bomp American storm yay”.

987

979(?)