Pardon SWID if he isnt coherent in this post, he has been up an unusually long peroid of time. Thanks again Rhodium for your clear advice. The first two threads you linked to are in fact the two main ones SWID has been studying from, after reading the entire "chloro/bromo/iodination of safrole" compilation. Indeed, the route he has decided upon is the bromination with NaBr in DMSO, and after twelve hours the solution has gone from clear to yellow to greenish-yellow to a sort of puke yellow-red-slightly green color. Since SWID does not have mechanical stirring, and has to make do with occasional swishing or stirring with a glass rod, it is his intention to let the contents of the vessel react for a full 24 hours before clean up and extraction.
As for the amination, that method looks excellent, however most of those chemicals are completely beyond SWID's means. He has no chemical supplier of any sort, has not invested his full time, attention, and money to the NaBH4 synth, (intends to look up sodium azide synth methods, it is probably doable), and certainly does not have access to hexadecyltributylphosphonium bromide.
SWID also guitily admits that his myristicin is likely not 100% pure. Although he did a vacuum fractional distillation of the oil (everything came over between 70 and 120), the fraction he is using is most everything above 105. This probably includes apiole, eugenol, and myristicin, along with other trace oils. SWID figures since he intends to vaccum fractional distill the bromomyristicin after bromination, this is acceptable, and hopefully a fraction can be captured which also contains bromoapiole. Obviously this is not properly sceintific or concise in method.
Again, SWID greatly appreciates your help. With all the above having been said, what route of amination would you suggest now?
Edit: An addendum, the reason (excuse) for the use of impure precursor is the small amount of oil available for fractional distillation (less than 100mL).
