As you know, this is for info purposes only of course.
I can assure you that SWIPP is very environmentally conscious, and would never attempt such a reaction with the intent to dump waste materials into the environment. I've studied foxy2's mercury decontamination thread carefully.
If this were ever attempted, SWIPP would reduce all salts back into elemental mercury, followed by triple distillation to regain purity of the mercury. Leftover residues would be contained in a vessel and stored, adding to them over time as more reactions produce more wastes, until there was sufficient amount to be taken to a licenced chemical waste processing site, and SWIPP would pay the needed price to have the wastes properly dealt with by a professional.
And as for the distillation, it would be done in a *purchased* mercury distillation apparatus, not a homemade one.
SWIPP is interested because of the near 1.8Kg elemental mercury in his posession without an apparant use other than for Al/Hg amalgamations. That's a lot of amalgamations!
I have not yet viewed your links, I will after submitting this.
So if one used N-methylformamide in this procedure, it would attach to the olefin to create the MDMA-formamide, which could be hydrolyzed to MDMA? This would be pretty cool if it's the case, because it would be akin to a Leukart product, but without the need to shange the safrole into MDP2P.
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