Methamphetamine manufacture

Apart from the academic literature, one should read the book "Secrets of Methamphetamine Manufacture" by Uncle Fester [18], This book explains all about the in-home applications of these pressure methods. Strike, however, emphasizes reactions that are purely chemical. 

Fester, U., "Secrets of Methamphetamine Manufacture, (4th Ed., Loompanics, Port Townsend, Washington, 1996)... 

Violence has recently spread to the southeast, where groups have formed in the primary docking locations for shipments entering the country. The size of the organizations is indicated by the seizure of assets and precursors. For example, in March 2007, a police raid in Michoacan resulted in the seizure of US 206 million in cash in a single location. In December 2006, just under 20 mt of pseudoephedrine, a key precursor in methamphetamine manufacture, was seized at Lazaro Cardenas seaport in the same province. 

This book is the result of six years experience in the field of manufacturing methamphetamine. It contains virtually everything I know about the subject. There are a lot of secrets in this area, hence the title Secrets of Methamphetamine Manufacture. 

In 1987, an exciting breakthrough in the field of methamphetamine manufacture occurred. This new development was so important because it promised to completely turn the tables on the DEA-led chemical blockaders and controllers. The new discovery was a patent issued in that year covering a simple and quick method for converting allylbenzene into phenylacetone. This method is exquisitely suited for clandestine operations, and is easily scaled up to industrial proportions. 

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Those propylene species that the authors were using are no different than safrole or allylbenzene. In fact, safrole is a perfect substitute. Yowza Those recipes look awesome Now as Strike understands it, there has already been a detailed writeup of the by-the-numbers application of the above patent as written. This, Strike believes, can be found in Uncle Fester s Secrets of LSD Manufacture and/or Secrets of Methamphetamine Manufacture ll 8], But our adventurous chemist Sunlight came thru again and submitted a new, hybrid form of this method which she seems to have formulated after a lot of thought on the matter. So here again is Sunlight ... 

Secrets of Methamphetamine Manufacture, Third Edition, by Uncle Fester. A brand new, revised and expanded edition of one of our best-selling "cookbooks." The result of a decade of practical experience, this is a step-by-step how-to-do-it book on the manufacture of methamphetamine and psychedelic amphetamines. This book is not meant to encourage anyone to break the law, but it does point out the ultimate futility of government prohibitions of "controlled substances by showing just how easily these substances can be manufactured. Covers methamphetamine, methcathinone (CAT), MDA, MDMA, ecstasy, and much more. Sold for informational purposes only. 1994, 5% x 8 /2, 186 pp, illustrated, soft cover. 24.95. 

There are other example procedures given in Secrets of Methamphetamine Manufacture for this same Wacker oxidation using dimethylformamide or methyl or ethyl alcohol. They use much more of the palladium catalyst to get the same or lesser results. The listed yield using DMF is more like 50%, so pick and choose one s recipes. 

To use this variation, the following materials are placed in the 1.5 liter champagne bottle hydrogenation device described in Chapter 11 of Secrets of Methamphetamine Manufacture, Seventh Edition . 5 gram platinum in 20 ml distilled water. If this platinum is in the form of Pt02 instead of reduced platinum metal catalyst obtained with borohydride, the experimenter must now reduce the platinum by... 

Next, the solution is allowed to cool, and made acid to congo red (about pH 3) with hydrochloric acid. Now the glassware is set up as shown in Figure 3 of Secrets of Methamphetamine Manufacture, Third Edition, and the solution is evaporated to about one-half its original volume under vacuum. A fair amount of crystalline material forms during the acidification and vacuum evaporation. 

This method is general for all phenylacetones, as Dr. Shulgin used it on quite a variety of them, all with similar low yields. In all of these methods, once the freebase is obtained in pure form by distillation (the boiling point of the amphetamine is similar to the phenylacetone), the freebase should be converted to the crystalline hydrochloride derivative. This is done by dissolving about 50 ml of freebase in about 400 ml ether or toluene, then bubbling dry HC1 gas through the solution, and filtering out the crystals to dry. See Chapter 5 of Secrets of Methamphetamine Manufacture, Seventh Edition for a full description. 

The production of the nitro alkene at this point offers the chance for the clandestine chemist to produce the phenylacetone. The recrystallization could be skipped, and instead the crude nitro alkene could be placed into a flask along with some hydrochloric acid and iron filings and boiled to give the phenylacetone in high yield. Complete directions can be found in chapter nine of my book Secrets of Methamphetamine manufacture. 

Source Wiilers-Russo, L. J. "Three Fatalities Involving Phospine Gas, Produced as a Result of Methamphetamine Manufacturing." Journal of Forensic Sciences, 441999,647-652. 

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