Can't you get a trialkylamine?Nope. Well, not me personally, at least. Even if i could, a kilo would probably cost a zillion roubles - in Russia an average-income person like SWIM can only afford the very very basic reagents. Of course, if he still wants to have some money left to buy normal clothes and Christmas presents
Of course, people who live, say, in Moscow are much luckier both in terms of available reagents and income - some of us even can afford buying 'real' PTC
and methylate it with MeI to a quat?Jeez, Rhodi, you must bee kidding - i struggled so much to make a few mls of this damned MeI
and you suggest i use it to make PTCs?
Beesides, do you know how much
iodine compounds cost?
Now, i just KNOW there is some way to extract those quats from some fabric softeners - but HOW IN THE WORLD would one go about extracting and purifying such a compd as a quaternary ammonium salt??? That's what always puzzled me (we don't have the kinds that have ONLY PTCs in them - and none of those 'dryer sheets' whatever they are
).
Well, the day that someone figures that out (and that day WILL come) will undoubtedly bee the day of another major victory of our small circle against our stupid, stupid laws
Antoncho
P.S. Oh, yes. PEG-400, this is somewhat more realistic to get - but all examples i've seen thus far mention exclusively quat ammonium salts. Are PEGs any good and what they can bee used for (and for what they CAN'T bee used) - can you or someone else give us some info on this subject (as offtopic as it may bee - please?)