ive always had times where i was tweaking so much from speed (from the way i write this you can probably see im tweaking rn 
) that i couldnt stop to wonder about the possibilities of phenylalanine since it is so easy to get it and its chemical structure is so similar to amphetamin.
unfortunatly i barely passed middle school chemistry and since then have been too afraid to do anything chemistry related academicly so maybe my question is dumb.
one of the rhodium archives has a synthesis of amphetamine from phenylalanine which was shared in this forum aswell;
basicly you reduce dl-phenylalanine to dl-phenylalaninol via LAH -- simple enough (on paper :/)
but then getting rid of the -OH group in that synthesis is a lto harder. my question would be why cant you use the same method of getting rid of the -OH group as you do with ephedrine (via red phosfor and iodine)?
i couldnt find any mention of this in bbgate and even dread, despite not being particularly hard to think about so probably im missing something
here are the rhodium archives if anyone needs phe to amph 1 , phe to amph 2 (and meth)
) that i couldnt stop to wonder about the possibilities of phenylalanine since it is so easy to get it and its chemical structure is so similar to amphetamin.unfortunatly i barely passed middle school chemistry and since then have been too afraid to do anything chemistry related academicly so maybe my question is dumb.
one of the rhodium archives has a synthesis of amphetamine from phenylalanine which was shared in this forum aswell;
basicly you reduce dl-phenylalanine to dl-phenylalaninol via LAH -- simple enough (on paper :/)
but then getting rid of the -OH group in that synthesis is a lto harder. my question would be why cant you use the same method of getting rid of the -OH group as you do with ephedrine (via red phosfor and iodine)?
i couldnt find any mention of this in bbgate and even dread, despite not being particularly hard to think about so probably im missing something
here are the rhodium archives if anyone needs phe to amph 1 , phe to amph 2 (and meth)