Okay that’s useful to me. Nitromethane is hard for me to obtain and so I can’t say i would waste it by using it to make methylamine, however, I
have seen a synth from firefighters that looks fairly appealing to me, in terms of OTC-ness.
To be fair; having looked into it I could probably actually just make cyclohexylamine and even have the Zn coming - and I actually just ordered the NiCl(II) as well,
about it….
Probably would get better yields this way - pretty much throughout from synthesis of the primary amine/ catylist if I used cyclohexylamine.
Others have suggested using ammonium acetate as the catylist as well…
I don’t know which way I will swing, it depends how much nitromethane I end up with. I do actually have some nitroethane now though so I’m getting there slowly but surely - setting up my next RXN in terms of aquisition of precursors.
ATM I’m working on the reductive amination of tryptamine to tryptophan but I’m out of cash and need dry ice.
I’m willing to admit i postponed me working in the n,n-DMT synth, so I can afford bits for the next one.
A week today, I get the ice…dry ice that is not any type of speed lol although I suppose in the end I will also make the corresponding TMA