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Total synthesis of lysergic acid via Pd-catalysed domino cyclizations
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The synthesis of lysergic acid by Shinsuke Inuki et al, which uses a neat palladium-catalysed reaction, and provides the opportunity to look at the Woodward-Hoffman rules f...
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Shulgin's syntheses of 2,5-DMA, DOB and DOEF
Fenderson5555
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Successive modifications of 2,5-dimethoxyamphetamine gave a fluorinated molecule with some interesting effects. (Shulgin considered the utility of radioactive fluorine for ...
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A more modern lysergic acid synthesis
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A synthetic scheme from 2004, which uses a Suzuki coupling, and also exploits the reactivity of the indole system. DOI: 10.1021/ol0354369
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Total synthesis of lysergic acid
Fenderson5555
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An overview of the 1956 total synthesis of lysergic acid, the product of which is one step away from LSD. A lot of "classical" methods, and one reaction that would involve ...
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Reactions in the synthesis of ketamine
Fenderson5555
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The synthesis of ketamine, which includes a pretty neat ring expansion rearrangement.
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Reactions in the synthesis of cocaine
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An overview of the cocaine synthesis published by Mans and Pearson in 2004.
I've glossed over the issues of diastereo- and enantioselectivity during the ring formation, ...
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DMT from tryptophan?
Fenderson5555
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A possible route via decarboxylation and n-methylation via carbamates
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Two syntheses of mescaline
Fenderson5555
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Mescaline syntheses from 2,6-dimethoxy phenol and 3,4,5-trimethoxybenzaldehyde.
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Mechanisms and named reactions in 2C-P synthesis
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Alexander Shulgin's synthesis of 2C-P, which contains some nice named reactions and troublesome reductions.
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Mechanisms in MDMA synthesis
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Two alternative syntheses of MDMA
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