Wow! 
This could very well bee a wonderful route to our beloved variously substituted arylethylamine!
Imagine the chaos in Law Enforcement agencies if this reaction work:
-with alaninol
-with dimethoxybenzene
-both
Someone has to try this in melted dimethoxybenzene with alaninol => ONE step to 2,5 DMA from 1,4 DB!
TWO steps to DOB from 1,4 DB
This means THREE steps
DOB from hydroquinone!
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End of the world as we know it 
! [hope]
Thanx Lego to point us this article!
