Hello dear associates, today I want to show you my first (Successful?) experiment on the synthesis of your favorite 4-methylpropiophenone.
After a long and thorough preparation, watching a ton of shit on YouTube, and gathering everything I needed, I finally got down to business.
Of course...
The particular segment in question starts at about 28:00 minutes into the episode.
I regret not being able to provide a shorter clip, but for anyone interested, this was from the methamphetamine episode of Hamiltons Pharmacopeia.
This is another rough outline of a procedure which is not provided...
Take pure to Toluene and synthesize Benzyl Chloride by adding TCCA (trichloroisocyanuric acid) and putting it in sunlight and using lithium bromide as a catalyst. Getting benzyl chloride might take hours to days. The lithium bromide makes it go faster so it could take hours instead of days.. You...