Also some reactions when left to sit may not need to be refluxed - I.e when producing methoxyphenol from hydroquinone, methanol, and sulfuric acid - you can either leave it for several days to stir, or reflux it only for a few hours.
So I have heard, this isn't from experience.

Many times its a function of the activation energy needed to overcome the initial equilibrium of the reaction. Once the needed energy is inputted it can be run higher or at a nice slow pace as long as this is sufficiant. The general rule is that a 50% increase in temperature in degrees C leads to a 100% increase in kinetic rate. So a reaction run twice as hot will run 4x faster.

Thanks for all the info, guys. 

If I had a place to keep all this stuff, I'd be up and running in a week.  It sucks living with other people who wouldn't understand. 

BANG  house starts to fill with acrid smoke and you wake to find that you can not breath or see.

the fire alarm in the lab wont work as its been eaten by the acid vapor in seconds and a small fire has
started in the lab.

you try and walk to your door but keep on hitting the wall as you can not see or breath.
the fire is getting more intense and you are starting to pass out as you still can not breath.

this is a scene from a possible fucked up loomins that realy needs 16 hours to compleate some times even over 24.

not all reactions go like this if they screw up but just a warning be damb carefull what you decide to sleep through.

and I would belive it to naf thats about the worst most people will encounter but some reactions are truly cunts
and thats all there is too it.

we may have main routes we all follow but there will be a few that read all of this one day and they will end up with the
cunt reaction .

I haven't seen much info, nor being able to google it, on a nitroaldol henry type reaction between benzaldehyde and 2-nitroethylbenzene, yielding 1,3 diarylnitropropene. This product could be converted to a 1,3 diaryl-2-propylamine or converted to a ketone and then with a reductive animation converted to a 1,3,diaryl,n-methyl-2 propylamine. Sorry if my nomenaclature is bad, but I am surprised that their is little found, well at least for me. I stumbled upon some of these reactions in a thesis, but only to the point of the 1,3 diarylnitropropene. If anything, I wouldn't be surprised if such molecules were inhibitive of the enzymes, related to the pathway associated with the use of amphetamine type structures, but thats a guess and may be wrong. I did notice in Java's article of interest thread,
http://127.0.0.1/talk/index.php/topic,568.msg7202.html#msg7202  that diaryl molecules were mentioned, and seeing this triggered my thoughts on what I have presented. I dare say experimental is king. I just wanted to mention it I suppose. My question is, has anyone heard or seen such a molecule being discussed or prepared etc. I haven’t checked other forums, etc.

Thanks Enkidu for your comments, and I will certainly look up that molecule that is a tertiary amine. Im still surprised to find little on what Ive presented, albeit a likely - no contender. Perhaps I am not looking hard enough, or in the correct places. Still interesting but/.

Does 2-Hydroxy-6-methyl-Benzaldehyde have any interesting uses?

haha, well, oxidation with permanganate and dehydration to the anhydride. Maybe you could use it as a protecting group if you turned the phenolic ~OH into an ether.

I dont think you will have much luck with just acid and methanol.

still I could be wrong but I think if it worked SM would be all over it.