vicks inhalers

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Originally Posted by weadboy420

The meth in vicks inhalers is the L isomer, the one you want is D, the stuff in the inhalers is next to useless, but it is technically meth. Deoxyephedrine is simply another another name for methamphetamine.

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True, and while one very popular "cookbook" states one can racemize (don't ask!) by means of reflux in HCL, this is nonsense, one would need to remove the amine completely, and replace (randomly) by reductive alkalyzation. How this could be done, I haven't a clue.