From Lego to N-methylamphetamine

it goes without saying that anything in this video is for entertainment purposes only all chemicals that I'm going to talk about are probably watched in the country you're in meaning that if you buy them without having a good reason you could expect the visits from mr. Smith and just as Walter White says it's all basic chemistry this stuff can be found out with a little bit of elbow grease and some good books on organic chemistry I recommend Wade from Pearson if you are going to try and make it good luck making it because if you do not have three years of lab training on your belts your users are probably going to be and you blow yourself up at least twice not a lot of people understand chemistry it's a lot of work to understand the concepts there's a lot of math involved and in the beginning all of your experiments will fail it is therefore another big surprise that not a lot of people end up studying organic chemistry a while ago there was this series called Breaking Bad it's about a chemistry teacher turned drug lord it had a lot of people really hyped that they would finally do something cool with chemistry in the media a lot of times writers do not know anything about science let alone chemistry and science will be used like some sort of magic to fix plot points although not all chemistry and Breaking Bad a spot on a lot of it is in one scene Walter White and Jesse Pinkman sit down at the table discussing their new way to make methamphetamine Jesse says that he will not be able to get his hands on enough pseudo pseudo meaning pseudoephedrine an ingredient in Coke medication Walter wines then tells him that he does not need pseudoephedrine this drug some of my friends is weird see they didn't understand that organic chemistry is basically like Legos just like chemistry Lego has rules so moves are legal and some moves are illegal and in the same sense that you could build ours anything out of Legos you can make almost anything from anything with chemistry so with that said to demonstrate that chemistry is like Legos I'm going to add my love for chemistry and Legos together by showing you how to make methamphetamine out of Legos let's go the first method I found was pretty straightforward I used styrene and the Kindler vacation of the world's reaction to produce phenyl acetic acid the only problem with this approach is that it would require extremely high temperatures which would need to be achieved to the tube furnace and also the addition of an obscure catalyst so I started from scratch again and try to come up with the difference in that extra TG Legos are made from a plastic called ABS this is a polymer consisting of a b NS a c2 nitrile butadiene and styrene legos can then be de polymerized under heat to to yield the monomers the aceton nitrile butadiene and styrene mixtures these mixtures can then be separated and the styrene can be isolated with a simple distillation in this synthesis styrene is converted to styrene peroxide by using parabens ORAC acids in a pre letcha reaction following this a grignard reagent can be prepared which then is used to attack the styrene peroxide forming a mixture of two phenol propanol and one phenyl propane tool for as you see the grignard reagent can attack on two points on the oxide ring opening it to two possible products the mixture of these two possible products then needs to be separated before it can be reacted again the phenyl-2-propanone is isolated and the alkyl group is oxidized using an appropriate oxidizing agents like pyridinium chlorochromate here abbreviated pcc this yields phenyl-2-propanone which can be turned into our desired product by a reductive amination of the ketone the addition of methyl amine will yields the amine intermediates which can be reduced by adding our favorite reducing agents Lisi and aluminium hydride giving us methamphetamine which can be purified by recrystallization the Street rats use aluminum amalgams to reduce that amine but this uses mercury which is hard to get extremely toxic and produces a lot of waste

Channel: Zabbie

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Length: 4min 28sec (268 seconds)

Published: Fri Apr 06 2018