with that 80 g or whatever of catalyst, I wonder how much mescaline could bee made?
psyloxy, I know you thought it was a bad idea, but I want to repeat here for all the bees that naphthalene can be sulfonated to produce "napsic" naphthalenesulfonic acid, which I bet could be substituted for tosic acid. IIRC, producing tosic acid requires either high temperatures or oleum. If there is interest, I can look it up again.
Too bad they need a 10 x excess of methanol. Probably it could bee recovered and reused.
I wonder if PTC could accelerate this reaction?
Well done! And here ning was going to make a methyl chloride generator!