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| 04/14/05 01:13 AM |
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 Re: Ritalin
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Gosh this is off-topic, but I'm still unclear:
Couldn't there be a higher alkyl group (ethyl, propyl, etc.) attached to the alpha, N, or 3,4-dioxy positions? How does this system show that a methyl group, and only a methyl group, could be in those places?
Anyway, I've often wondered why Shulgin was inconsistent with his stereochemistry in PiHKAL's diagrams, as you mention.
Thanks for the lesson, and I don't think Shulgin or the Erowids would mind the diagram being linked to for non-commercial purposes.
*edit* OK, I missed this:
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the appropriate number of hydrogens are assumed to be joined to any carbon such that all four bonding slots of the carbon are completed (unless otherwise illustrated)
Now I get it, thank you.
