Author Topic: Reducing and then brominating Phenylephrine  (Read 2566 times)

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neuromodulator

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Reducing and then brominating Phenylephrine
« on: March 27, 2002, 06:33:00 PM »
I can get tons of pure phenylephrine HCl powder.  (HI too.) Can I reduce the phenylephrine, then methoxylate it and then brominate it to get something good?  If so, what?  (3-methoxy-4-bromo-phenylethylamine?)

Rhodium

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N-methyl-PEA no good
« Reply #1 on: March 27, 2002, 10:27:00 PM »
The compound is 1-(3-hydroxyphenyl)-2-(methylamino)-ethanol. You can only remove the side chain hydroxy group through HI/P reduction (or any other ephedrine -> meth procedure), and even then the product is a N-methyl-phenethylamine, and I know of no such active compounds.