ephedrine production

I feel there needs to be more emphasis towards ephedrine production, especially when ephedrine is a hard to come by commodity. if the powers at be could direct there videos towards going green, such as l-pac and akabori momatoni reaction of N-methyl-dl-alanine to ephedrine, i think this would be...

Introduction Ephedrine was found in the Chinese "Ma-huang" or Ephedra sinica Stapf plant, made from various species of ephedra, by Nagai in 1887. It has two chiral centers so that four configurationally isomeric ephedrines exist. The two naturally occurring ephedrines differ in the configuration...