Aluminium amalgam (Al/Hg) summary

[MadHatter]

How about doing a wash with HCl on the foil before adding the mercury nitrate? Wouldn't that remove any oxide layers stopping the reaction?

 

[AKWA]

A bit late but for any one reading on this timeline..use an unltra sonic cleaner for this purpose

 

[farukhocaoglu]

Can this be used to substitute syntheses requiring NaBH4? I am trying to make 5-MeO-DMT from 5-MeO-T following Hamilton Norris's synthesis, but I don't have NaBH4 available to me.

 

[G.Patton]

I don't think so

 

[farukhocaoglu]

is there a way to make NaBH4 that doesn't require super high temperatures or pressure and that can be done small scale in an amateur lab, or do I just give up and order from China and hope customs don't question me?

 

[G.Patton]

Hello, it would worth to buy. You won't make it without special equipment and appropriate lab experience+skills.

 

[farukhocaoglu]

Why doesn't Al/Hg work for that synthesis? it should reduce the imine to methylate the tryptamine, no?

 

[G.Patton]

I haven't tried this way. You can carry out this research and share your experience with BB Forum

 

[farukhocaoglu]

I think it may be possible, but I'm not totally sure. Do you think it will reduce the double bond on the indole?

 

[G.Patton]

definitely not

 

[farukhocaoglu]

The one thing I'm not too sure about is the product, will it make MMT or DMT. In your synthesis of methamphetamine from amphetamine with Al/Hg, only one methyl group is added to the amine.

 

[PSICHEBIRIA]

@G.Patton, thank you very much for the article.​

 

[rothschild33]

After preparing solution of mercury in nitric acid, then adding this solution to a flask with water and aluminum foil, how does one properly vent the fumes from this reaction? The fumes seem strong enough that it is escaping from the air filter and going through the mask as well. I was thinking of using the vacuum pump with the flask then a vacuum regulator so the vacuum strength is just enough for the fumes to be vented outside, but concerned about pumping hydrogen gas as it might risk explosion

 

[syntheticdrugs]

@G.Patton I found the answer I was looking for and saw some practical experience in this post. I need your answers to other questions, thank you.