I was a little confused by a friend talking about a substance he knew only as 1-(3,4-Methylenedioxyphenyl)-2-butanone. I sugested that it sound slike it could be MDBD, but it didn't exactly match up, can any of you help m,e identify this substance?
1-(3,4-Methylenedioxyphenyl)-2-butanone is the precursor ketone to MBDB, so you would get MBDB by reductively aminating this ketone with methylamine, as Shulgin does in his synthesis of
Methyl-J (http://www.erowid.org/library/books_online/pihkal/pihkal128.shtml)
(http://www.erowid.org/library/books_online/pihkal/pihkal128.shtml). Methyl-J is an alternative name for MBDB.
It's to MBDB what 1-(3,4-methylenedioxyphenyl)-2-propanone (the well known MDP2P) is to MDMA.
Here are the structures:
Molecule: (https://www.the-hive.ws/forum/faq.pl?Cat=#applet)
MDP2P; 3,4-methylenedioxyphenyl-2-propanone (" CC(=O)Cc2ccc1OCOc1c2 ")
Molecule: (https://www.the-hive.ws/forum/faq.pl?Cat=#applet)
3,4-methylenedioxyphenyl-2-butanone (" CCC(=O)Cc2ccc1OCOc1c2 ")
Than what is 4-(3,4-Methylenedioxyphenyl)-2-butanone?
4-(3,4-Methylenedioxyphenyl)-2-butanone = 3,4-Methylenedioxyphenyl-3-butanone
Molecule: (https://www.the-hive.ws/forum/faq.pl?Cat=#applet)
3,4-MDP-3-Butanone ("CC(=O)CCc2ccc1OCOc1c2")
But it has no significance.