Semester 1 Chatter Thread (2009) (3 Viewers)

[rubificticious]

Psych's a fucking joke that shouldn't be included in the field of Science. The shit that I've looked at shows it's mostly tabula-rasa esque gibberonious nonsense

dems fightin' words.

 

[Ben Netanyahu]

in the spirit of changing this thread from some gay ass artsfaggot thread to a healthy SCIENCE thread, i postulate the following problem which has been bugging me.

Say you have some piperine which you've extracted from black pepper with DCM:

And you oxidise it with, say, KMnO4 (mild oxidising agent yes?), it changes to piperonal, amirite?

Easy. Now it's pretty easy to convert this to MDA, if you have the right materials and tools. How does one go from this structure to something that can be converted to MDMA? Clearly a carbon needs to be added. Perhaps to achieve something like isosafrole.

I cbf'ed to look back at my chem2402 notes to see what could be done there. Anyone got any thoughts? We're aiming to achieve this structure...

This is all purely theoretical. I have neither the tools nor the wish to synthesise my own home made drugs
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[jayadore]

Jayadore.

I don't think I will be in the HSTY lecture tomorrow. I may sleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep in and listen to the rain and drink lots of earl grey tea

I am totally over HSTY2607 ;/

YESSSS.
I was thinking the same but I didn't want to seem like a bludger.
I haven't been to any lectures all week.

Also.. you lost me at DCM, but I was totally back on track when you mentioned MDA and I was like .. does Neb want to make MDMA?

 

[Ben Netanyahu]

DCM = dichloromethane

top solvent

a+ would buy again

MDA is itself a drug worth manufacturing. If you were like...into that shit. The differences between it and MDMA are lost on most drug users, considering that ecstacy often contains a mixture of those two, one of those two, or a nice cocktail of anything the hell else.

 

[Ben Netanyahu]

ITT: We list our fave solvents. DMSO? THF? DCM? water?

 

[jb_nc]

acetone

 

[jb_nc]

I have a book on this that is illegal in Australia

is it mcmurrays organic chemistry

 

[Ben Netanyahu]

acetone

poor choice imo.

 

[jb_nc]

poor choice imo.

removes super glue

therefore it is good

 

[Ben Netanyahu]

is it mcmurrays organic chemistry

only illegal if on the internet

I bought the clayden, greeves etc textbook

top quality textbook
like an index of organic reactions

despite that something still troubles me:
how to make morphine from codeine, without using pyridine

 

[Ben Netanyahu]

Ecstacy books are illegal

trying to get a copy of Dr N's books on suicide

no they're not
they're frowned upon

there's a lovely little book called pikhal (everyone's heard of it) in almost every uni library, and available elsewhere. it's not illegal brah.

 

[kokodamonkey]

Spence how does your test end up in week 6? my first one when i did ur unit was like in week3.

 

[goony]

Spence how does your test end up in week 6? my first one when i did ur unit was like in week3.

Maybe it was planned just before/after the mid-sem break? That was pretty early last year.

 

[kokodamonkey]

nah coz they have like 5... so they gotta fit them all in...

BOS MEET WENT WELL TODAY!!!!!!! I Literally "picked up"

 

[spence]

Spence how does your test end up in week 6? my first one when i did ur unit was like in week3.

I dunno I was expecting it to be tomorrow, then they told us today that it's been moved. We have 3 tests and a final exam.

And damn, I forgot about the bos meet

 

[kokodamonkey]

You always forget!!! Which was a shame. we were talking about you!

 

[squeenie]

nah coz they have like 5... so they gotta fit them all in...

BOS MEET WENT WELL TODAY!!!!!!! I Literally "picked up"

Yeah. Literally.

And then you threatened to throw me off the balcony.

 

[kokodamonkey]

I didn't threatened, i dangled.

 

[spence]

You always forget!!! Which was a shame. we were talking about you!

Who else was talking bout me?

 

[^CoSMic DoRiS^^]

I remembered it

But it was all rainy and cold, and I don't have uni on tuesdays

so tea and cardigan-wearing hobo home time won