i knew that a two carbon chain would make it an ethylamine ,festers secrets of meth manufacture claims to yeild ppa via a thermal decarboxylation of alanine, ive already read the rhodiums phenylalanine section and realise its uninformative , i still wonder whether nabh3 will do the trick, i have a hunch its not that hard to go this way ,i wouldnt be handing a method useing readly available precursors to anybody either ,phenylalinol?along the same lines then?