I wanted to bring up this subject, because I think it has a great potential for radically advancing phenethylamine and tryptamine production.
Right now, combinatoral chemistry is used by big drug companies to screen through libraries of thousands to millions of compounds to find drugs useful for treating various ailments. The general procedure is they identify what chemical qualities their after, build up a database of compounds that might be interesting, then screen through them to find what they're looking for, narrowing their search down to the desired one or two compounds. In the process, they build "libraries" of compounds by synthesizing thousands of compounds at once (using robots, etc.)
Well, we have a different problem. We have one or two desired compounds, but we're all looking for the most desirable synthetic routeleading towards these.
How might we use this approach and, in a way, help pioneer a cutting edge branch of modern chemistry? What sort of quantitative analytical methods could we come up with to measure the kinetics, etc., of say, variations of the Wacker oxidation, or reductive amination? For that matter, only a tiny amount of literature exists on applied novel routes to 2C-B -- this could really be something.
Does anybody out there have some thoughts on this subject, or even perhaps some literary recomendations?
twitchin' the night away...