Okay I'm sure at least one of two other people have seen this, as it's in the DEA dox on mdma trafficing. On page 11, towards the bottom in the grid, "Conversion of Safrole to Mdp2p using sulfuric acid, sodium hydroxide, and solvents;..."
It then lists the proper chemical reagents required for isosafrole conversion, but why and where the hell did they come up with that? I thought that had been debunked a long time ago... so why would they keep it in their "current" reports? (http://www.usdoj.gov/ndic/pubs/642/642p.pdf (http://www.usdoj.gov/ndic/pubs/642/642p.pdf)
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Or maybe I'm wrong and this is some supasekret backdoor the heavies use?
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There is nothing more to it than that they are outlining the conversion of safrole to isosafrole, which then is oxidized with a peracid to the glycol(ester) and rearranged to MDP2P:
1) https://www.thevespiary.org/rhodium/Rhodium/chemistry/isomerizafrole.html (https://www.thevespiary.org/rhodium/Rhodium/chemistry/isomerizafrole.html)
2) https://www.thevespiary.org/rhodium/Rhodium/chemistry/peracid.html (https://www.thevespiary.org/rhodium/Rhodium/chemistry/peracid.html)
These are actual articles from the literature on hydration on allyls to 2-propanols. It is not promising:
https://www.thevespiary.org/rhodium/Rhodium/pdf/mdp2pol/ (https://www.thevespiary.org/rhodium/Rhodium/pdf/mdp2pol/)