Post 364034 (https://www.thevespiary.org/talk/index.php?topic=6911.msg36403400#msg36403400)
(Chromic: "msg -> ghb?", Chemistry Discourse).Chromic: So, I gather we're all pretty sure that there's no easy way to decarboxylate MSG?
And no-one answered chromic on it....
GABA and GBL are long gone hopes in oz as they are no class 1 substances... if msg could be used with the above method (doubtfull, seems too simple....) or the nitrous acid method mentioned in the linked thread it would be excellent...
Could someone please give a sum up final comment on msg use for reactions to form ghb/gaba?
Work or not?
-AC
This idea was discussed pretty throughly starting here Post 364034 (Chromic: "msg -> ghb?", Chemistry Discourse).
No, it hasn't been throughly discussed. The post you supplied proposes a completely different method to convert MSG into GHB and is therefore not relevant to this method. There is no nitrous acid deamination involved in this reaction, only a strecker degradation and an aluminum isopropoxide reduction.