Bromosafrole Grignard?

[El_Zorro]

Please forgive me, as I have absolutely no formal OChem training, but I got this idea the other day.  Say someone whipped up some bromosafrole.  Could they not form a grignard reagent with it, then react it with N-bromo Methanamine, and I guess hydrolize with sat. ammonium chloride, and give MDMA?  I couldn't find a bromoamine, or anything like that, the closest thing I could think of was getting hydroxylamine and brominating it in the same way as allyl acohol-->allyl bromide.  Could this work?
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[Rhodium]

The grignard could definitely be made. As a first test, I'd reccommend that you try to react it with methoxyamine (hydroxylamine methyl ether) followed by normal workup to get MDA.

I think it's a shame nobody has tried that out yet.

[El_Zorro]

I actually asked an intelligent question about organic chemistry!  I don't know what to think.  Maybe I should think about trying it.
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