The question is, with the high cost of lego, would making meth this way even be possibly profitable Edit: writing this just because I keep getting similar responses around this idea. I am very aware that there are more profitable ways to make meth than making it from Lego. I was just curious if you even COULD make a profit from Lego meth, or whether it would be completely impossible to make even a marginal profit.
Hello fellow chemists, I made this video a long time ago. I'm currently working on getting my PhD. in Organic Chemistry. I've taken a look at the old comments underneath and am happy that the video attracted lots of interest. What I have done in this video was purely to make an educational point, its stupid to actually do it like this and the synthesis route is relatively arbitrary. It is however chemically sound, the people in the comments who are trying to say that what I described is wrong should read Clayden's Organic Chemistry, they're not completely wrong themselves but for legal reasons, I had to leave something as an exercise for the reader. I am thinking of making a second video discussing this with the hindsight of a completed BSc. and MSc. in the field. When I made this I was still doing my BSc. I might be making more videos, although I am still thinking of what they should be about.
make videos because you enjoy making them! a second followup after getting a masters would be interesting to see, critiques if old videos with new knowledge are always enjoyable
Ok so I have a question. Assuming Walter is a genius and his chemical formula is tweaked to perfection to achieve 99.1% purity as they say: Afaik some crystal latices need as little as 10ppm of impurities to be coloured, wouldn't the .9% out of their 99.1% pure meth be enough to give it color?
it would never be that blue lol, even 95% pure stuff made with the P2P method (which is extremely pure mind you, they make it look way too easy on that show, no way someone would make 99.1% pure meth in an RV, that is ridiculous) is just ever so slightly blueish, not even close to the show's baby blue crystals.
I have no Idea about meth and my chem knowledge is limited to UA-cam, but from what I've seen that's probably not a super difficult purity to achieve. My suspicion why drugs on the black market are often impure is that it's just not worth the effort considering the consumer can't develop brand loyalty (due to the manufacturer being unknown).
@@ThomasTheThermonuclearBomb nah!, it is not THAT dangerous, I'd rather have some sodium in my hand, (and survive the chemical and thermical burns) than having something really cool like Fluorine (simpler formula, just an F), curium, or things that really are what nightmares are made of, like ricin, botulllina toxin, VX...
When oxidizing 1_phenyl_isopropanol into p2p I would probably just use bleach (hypochlorous acid) instead of making PCC or KCC or chromyl chloride. Bleach is my new FAVORITE oxidizer
he is just being honest you know damn well how boring schools is the sad part is i most all the kids would care about is the meth not the chemical process because yall just teach kids to be scared of shit without explaining why then they turn into brain dead morons who want to censor everything because they don't know how to handle anything
Thank you for this practical tutorial. Unfortunately, I’m having some trouble getting ahold of the PCC, can I substitute by another oxidizer such as: fluorine gas, chlorine trifluoride, dioxygen difluoride (FOOF)? (This is obviously a joke, no one is crazy enough to work with FOOF except that one guy).
The more you learn about science and especially chemistry the more obvious it becomes that our society only works because scientists are overwhelmingly nice people who use their knowledge for good.
Isn't it wiered they never tried to make virusus? Like resident evil virusus... Or are they testing it now on us? Just like how Americans used to put lead in gasoline and got poisoned.
I was just complaining to my grandma in India about the restrictions on "cold medicine" and this popped up in my recommendeds. Thanks UA-cam! (giggles again)
great video! As a chemistry major I have some small comments. At 3:25, you could have done the Styrene oxide + Gringard reaction in a basic medium, and mechanism 2 would have been more favorable, increasing our yield. Also we could have used Methyl Lithium instead of it's Grignard for style points, as the last episode of BB is named FeLiNa, with Li being lithium ofc.
Thank you for this fun video! I'm a 50 y/o software engineer but just increasingly curious about chemistry and biology, so I'm really considering going back to school! Even if I don't get a degree, just to learn more chemistry and biology (I mostly love microbiology).
Its crazy realizing that I've reached the point in my 2nd Semester Orgo that I have a grasp of each of these reactions. I even thought to myself, "imagine he does a Grignard." Thanks for this.
I like the Vince Gilligan purposefully picked things to do wrong on the show that chemists would know were wrong. he was basically told by AMC to have the characters never explain how to actually make meth and to not only leave key steps out, but to include intentional mistakes that would result in nothing useful being created if they were actually followed. and of course, they added the whole color thing for plot reasons
I wish that instead of "purity" that they did something else, since no one would care or even be able to tell the difference between 97% and 99%. I can see why they did it, since for the plot to work Walter's meth needed to be the best stuff on the market to give a reason why he's so successful. One option I think would have been better is if Walter uses his knowledge from Grey Matter to make a new kind of meth that's stronger and more addictive, but is hard to synthesize and requires skills, knowledge, and equipment that only he has. That could also be where the blue color comes from, too.
@@ENCHANTMEN_ere are 2 entaniomers (mirror chemicals) of methamphetamine, all meth is a mix of those two, dextrorotary and levorotary. you want more dex than levo by far, known as D-Methamphetamine. most street meth has a racemic (50/50) or so ratio of dex to levo, but there are methods to make d amphetamine and ditch the levo, so it could be smth like that idk, since its harder to achieve and believe me you can definitely tell the difference between good d methamphetamine and regular racemic methamphetamine
3:20 This is an invalid synthesis. The Grignard would attack the less substituted carbon of the epoxide. But more importantly, the proposed product of this Grignard is invalid: the product includes a carbon with five bonds, and an improper alcohol. Instead, perform a hydroboration-oxidation of styrene to yield a primary alcohol. Oxidize the alcohol via PCC and then install a methyl group via a Grignard. Very fun video concept!
4:09 Also, the methylamine addition to the carbonyl is valid, but remember that in order for reduction by LiAlH4 to occur, the carbonyl must be intact and so the oxide resulting from the methylamine addition can't be reduced directly. Dehydration then hydrogenation is a better option here.
Thank you, I was interested in chemistry before (not for making horrible substances that will kill me from shame), but when you said you can make anything from basically anything.. That sparked the chemicals inside my brain, so I thank you for that.
@@dewilew2137 cocaine isn’t a horrible substance, I need it to function (crackhead). I’m just joking with you, I like beneficial micro dosing of such substances, I might do nicotine patches.
"Sir, after reviewing your purchasing history. I see that you have been purchasing a lot of Lego's. Eleven Thousand Dollars to be exact. and yet you don't seem to come off as the type of person to play with those... what are you using these purchases for?"
I think you made a mistake at 3:31. A grignard reagent attacking an epoxide will attack MOSTLY at the least steric carbon because it is an SN2 reaction. Which would be example 2 in the video........ AND that is where the mistake is. The epoxide will open with the oxygen on the benzyl carbon making 1_phenyl_propan-1-ol. But in your example you put the oxygen on the SAME carbon as you put the grignard methyl group making 1_phenyl_propan_2_ol . That is WRONG.
But after oxidation of this alcohol to propiophenon, you could use CuBr for an α-ketoaminiation or from the alcohol via NBS…but Lego as a source for styrene is a horrible choice o.o
Every time I see a post about a chemisty technique or "recipe" I see comments saying its wrong. Does no one know anything? How does anything get done? Meanwhile tweakers allegedly make this shit in their sheds?
The fact that something that produces absurd amounts of dopamine can be turned into something that produces even more dopamine is kinda funny to me. I'm sitting here listening to this like "dude how much freetime do you have"
I’m studying for my o-chem final and i was just going over Grignard rxns. It’s so cool to see the stuff i study in school translate into real-life things like making meth
Cool dude, you made me look up the reaction, never heard of it. Reawakend my interest, starting to understand more. Thank you! I really want to learn more. The first reaction that got me interested was the Maillard reaction, in cooking and baking, and i started experimenting, but now i feel like i should go to school , to labs and start from 0. To really understand life, evolution and the chmical rections and compounds. Shit man, you got me excited!, thanks again! :D
What would be the best solvent to use for recrystallization in hopes of removing any potentially remaining residual adulterants as possible? Thank you!
This video just got recommended to me and it was the most damn interesting thing and I'm glad you made it even if you haven't made anything else! Thank you!
When Jesse starts playing with legos, this is what Walter does.
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I think you can get that thoriumdioxide catalyst from Albemarle in Amsterdam. They make catalysts for fuel processing there. They even shape their granulate catalysts to best process oil at different stages, which is why they are a biiiiig player in that field.
Why did i think he was gonna explain chemistry using legos as the visual aid, and not literally turning a lego into a meth. Thanks, im now probably on a government watchlist.
What of just make a pure crystal extract from the plant ephedra S. ? Would this not take a lot of work out of the process other than all the washing to clean of the plant fats that remain with each pull?
Why not have some spun out tweaker piss up your ass when they are coming down from their binge? Recycle chems instead of fouling & degrading our planet further by exploiting a slow-growing plant.
Why at 3:35 in 2nd possible product (bottom), would the epoxide open that way. Wouldnt the O-C bond on the right side be pushed up instead of the left one?
Maybe take the styrene and do a hydroboration oxidation to make 2_phenyl_1_ethanol and then oxidize that to an aldehyde with bleach(hypochlorous acid) and make 2_phenyl acetaldehyde. Then do a grignard with that and methyl bromide to make 1_phenyl isopropanol. Oxidize that to p2p with bleach(hypochlorous acid) and then do a reductive amination to make meth .........BAMM
A valid alternative route, but this video was for educational purposes. not for a practical discussion on synthetic strategy. perhaps that can be another video
There seems to be a mistake in the structure of the product at 3:28 . The grignard reagent opens the epoxide but the epoxide oxygen goes to the beta carbon instead of the alpha carbon. Same thing at 3:38 when the epoxide is opened. Am I seeing things or is that a genuine mistake?
I was never good with organic chemistry thats why I work in EMS but as a first responder I do find this interesting I've run into my fair share of meth addicts
Consider it a mark of your honor that I never subscribed to anyone after watching just one video of them. I always loved chemistry(physical and organic) but hated the way it was taught to us, I haven't watch breaking bad but after this I sure will
I really hope you endup uploading more, the explanation is sound and the concept behind is really cool. Im not a chemist but i supprisingly learned alot in this video even thow it was quite technical
Blowing yourself up twice in an effort to see through one experiment would show a level of determination most people don't possess and quite the accomplishment in and of itself, I say kudo's. Failure this is not.
I just can't stop thinking about how if NileRed did a video like this, He'd actually make the meth and (at least pretend to) snort it afterwards to check if he made it right. I'm glad it DIDN'T go that way, but it's an interesting thought that psuedo is the easiest way to make meth, but it's definitely not the only way. You just gotta find something that has the chemicals you want, and moving towards making meth is usually a lower-energy state than it starts as.
That's what you get from studying organic chemistry. Years ago I used to watch these videos for fun understanding nothings. Now I understand something and it makes me nervous about the test next month.
Correct me if I’m wrong but Walt was making meth with methylamine phenylacetone and an aluminium amalgam. Someone maybe can also correct me on this but when synthesising meth using phenylacetone you create a 50/50 racemic mixture of Levo and dextro methamphetamine litterally making his meth 50% in “quality”. Using pseudo does give you 100% dextromethamphetamine and unless he separated the dextro from the levo he would’ve went back In quality.
@@Just.A.T-Rex No, since these are enantiomers, they have identical chemical properties. It is possible to sepearate if you do enantiomeric resolution (which requires reacting the product with a chiral molecule to make diastereomers, separating the products, and performing another reaction to get rid of the other chiral molecule), or passing it through a chiral column (which is expensive). So in short, the separation is possible, but not easy in any way.
I don't know that the levo has much undesirable action so having it there isn't necessarily a problem. The dextro is what you want though. A process that isolates it is obviously preferable. Kind of a boring molecule anyway with the specificity of needing the isomer being the only interesting part. Unless you happen to have ADHD - where the amphetamines have super useful effect that other stimulants can't match for some reason. That's the big cool application. ADHD is ultra common and life destroying.
This is really dumb since you can produce phenylpropanol with the grignard reagent from benzyl chloride, reacted with acetaldehyde and then neutralized with hydrochloric acid. This is from the bunk methamphetamine recipe in the so-called anarchist cookbook, which does not produce methamphetamine but does produce 1 phenyl 2 propanol in pretty high yield
Very nice, but what if I have methamphetamin and want to make Lego out of it ?
Why do you have methamphetamine in the first place anyway?
@@tf2spyclass09 cause it’s cheaper than Lego 😉
Then that's not lego
Or that meth is not pure at all... You sure that 90% of it isn't chilli powder?
@@tf2spyclass09 it’s called being a sigma male💪🦾
just make some lego-shaped meth blocks, i mean who wouldnt want to see you lego meth star?
UA-cam: "You can't say swear words in your videos."
Also UA-cam: * recommends me "How to make methamphetamine with Lego" *
xD
Breaking Bad season 6
too true lol
Yep
yeah the algorithm loved this video apparently
Why did I think you were actually going to do the synthesis on camera
this isnt a nile red video buddy...
@@amir78989 more like nile green
More like Nile blue hahaha
@@snared_ nile green more likely
@@decrepitflabbonium5038 You didn’t get the joke
The question is, with the high cost of lego, would making meth this way even be possibly profitable
Edit: writing this just because I keep getting similar responses around this idea. I am very aware that there are more profitable ways to make meth than making it from Lego. I was just curious if you even COULD make a profit from Lego meth, or whether it would be completely impossible to make even a marginal profit.
Doubt it. I don’t know how to make meth but it really seems like all you need are a bunch of striker strip matches, an RV and an Erlenmeyer flask.
@@glennmatthews758 shake n bake baby
All the work would certainly mean a lot of opportunity cost.
@@emperorsascharoni9577 time better spent getting a regular job lol
meth heads are the hardest workin mfs on the planet, all for the wrong reasons
Yard sale legos
This explains why I was such a LEGO addict as a child
You're not supposed to smoke Lego silly, but who am I to judge?
@@southernflatland Bwahahaha Well they should put a warning label on all pieces
“choking hazard” not smoking hazard
I made a Toyota Camry out of Legos, an old record player, a microwave and a push mower.
Good idea, but Lego costs more than meth for the same mass.
No. No it isn't...
@@snailsaredumb9412 yes it does
@@russellfisher1303 1 ounce of lego isn't $450. No it doesn't cost more than meth
@@snailsaredumb9412 BUT HAVE YOU SEEEEENNNN THESE LEGO PRICES?!?!
Lego Death Star = 1,500$!!! 😳😳😳
@@russellfisher1303 If only Walt and Gale started their own lego business :(
Hello fellow chemists, I made this video a long time ago.
I'm currently working on getting my PhD. in Organic Chemistry.
I've taken a look at the old comments underneath and am happy that the video attracted lots of interest.
What I have done in this video was purely to make an educational point, its stupid to actually do it like this and the synthesis route is relatively arbitrary.
It is however chemically sound, the people in the comments who are trying to say that what I described is wrong should read Clayden's Organic Chemistry, they're not completely wrong themselves but for legal reasons, I had to leave something as an exercise for the reader.
I am thinking of making a second video discussing this with the hindsight of a completed BSc. and MSc. in the field.
When I made this I was still doing my BSc.
I might be making more videos, although I am still thinking of what they should be about.
well, its been a while
- im interested in all kinds of chem videos, so dont worry abt. that for now
good luck for your PhD 👨🔬
Do it..post something,u got a sub
make videos because you enjoy making them! a second followup after getting a masters would be interesting to see, critiques if old videos with new knowledge are always enjoyable
Turning absurd objects into unexpected things goes hard on YT
Give em hell bro
Ok so I have a question. Assuming Walter is a genius and his chemical formula is tweaked to perfection to achieve 99.1% purity as they say: Afaik some crystal latices need as little as 10ppm of impurities to be coloured, wouldn't the .9% out of their 99.1% pure meth be enough to give it color?
it would never be that blue lol, even 95% pure stuff made with the P2P method (which is extremely pure mind you, they make it look way too easy on that show, no way someone would make 99.1% pure meth in an RV, that is ridiculous) is just ever so slightly blueish, not even close to the show's baby blue crystals.
@@Fred_the_1996 luckily it's just a show!
I have no Idea about meth and my chem knowledge is limited to UA-cam, but from what I've seen that's probably not a super difficult purity to achieve. My suspicion why drugs on the black market are often impure is that it's just not worth the effort considering the consumer can't develop brand loyalty (due to the manufacturer being unknown).
@@Kenionatus it is hard lmao
@@Fred_the_1996 DEA data says average meth purity is 97%+.
Trust a Dutchman to know how to make drugs from lego.
We get a special booklet when we buy our LEGO 😎
Hahahha
"Even the most basic chemical [...] has the potential to do great harm" - yeah, super-alkaline materials are extremely hazardous.
Pure sodium is pretty dangerous too. It's chemical formula is just Na
This comment is..... Based... 😎
This reply chain really got me like: Bromine Uranium Hydrogen
Bro it's two replies.
@@ThomasTheThermonuclearBomb nah!, it is not THAT dangerous, I'd rather have some sodium in my hand, (and survive the chemical and thermical burns) than having something really cool like Fluorine (simpler formula, just an F), curium, or things that really are what nightmares are made of, like ricin, botulllina toxin, VX...
thank you for making this video! I always wanted to be a chemist as a child and you've convinced me to give up on my dream!
When oxidizing 1_phenyl_isopropanol into p2p I would probably just use bleach (hypochlorous acid) instead of making PCC or KCC or chromyl chloride. Bleach is my new FAVORITE oxidizer
There are many more oxidisers. I made this video a long long time ago, will probably make more
Bleach isn't hypochlorous acid, it's sodium hypoclorite.
I’m showing this to my students! This is how you get the children hooked on chemistry.
Plus your accent is fluid and superb 😍
yeah they'll be hooked alright
You should be fired 💀
So did the school get pissed?
he is just being honest you know damn well how boring schools is the sad part is i most all the kids would care about is the meth not the chemical process because yall just teach kids to be scared of shit without explaining why then they turn into brain dead morons who want to censor everything because they don't know how to handle anything
You should get fired
Thank you for this practical tutorial. Unfortunately, I’m having some trouble getting ahold of the PCC, can I substitute by another oxidizer such as: fluorine gas, chlorine trifluoride, dioxygen difluoride (FOOF)?
(This is obviously a joke, no one is crazy enough to work with FOOF except that one guy).
That's what I'm putting as my oxidizer on my final next week ;)
That One Guy's picture is in the dictionary next to "That One Guy".
Isn’t the gas form of fluoride dangerous
@@mid1429 Your takeaway is that _that's_ dangerous??
FOOF makes you go Foooooffffff, (guessing that is the kind of stuf that labels concrete as flammable, like chlorine trifluoride)
I understood none of this, but great video still. Very informative.
The more you learn about science and especially chemistry the more obvious it becomes that our society only works because scientists are overwhelmingly nice people who use their knowledge for good.
"use their knowledge for good" lmao you're fucking joking right
Yep.
until we made nukes, guns, F-35s, tanks, and ICBMs
wooo science
Isn't it wiered they never tried to make virusus? Like resident evil virusus... Or are they testing it now on us? Just like how Americans used to put lead in gasoline and got poisoned.
LOL good one
More clandestine chemistry videos please
Based as fuck
Mom: Why don't you play with the kid next door?
The kid next door:
I was just complaining to my grandma in India about the restrictions on "cold medicine" and this popped up in my recommendeds. Thanks UA-cam! (giggles again)
They always got their ears on , come on
great video! As a chemistry major I have some small comments. At 3:25, you could have done the Styrene oxide + Gringard reaction in a basic medium, and mechanism 2 would have been more favorable, increasing our yield. Also we could have used Methyl Lithium instead of it's Grignard for style points, as the last episode of BB is named FeLiNa, with Li being lithium ofc.
wouldn't the first product still be more favourable because of resonance stablization
@@midnightgamer4201 No, there is no resonance stabilization.
Organolithium hella dangerous. Grignard better
Chemistry is the closest thing to magic we've got. Especially for people like me who dont understand all the underlying mechanisms of it 😅
Yes they used to make fools gold and alchemy is based on this
@@nolesy34 Fool's Gold is a naturally occurring mineral
@@Sivanot Which ironically contains small ammounts of gold.
no magic is the closest thing to magic we've got. Ever seen a magician? Fool
@@hedgehog3180 I guess we ...both got fooled
*cheesy sitcom music
Credits
I imagine this is an alternative universe's collage student's project for class to demonstrate their understanding of chemistry
Thank you for this fun video! I'm a 50 y/o software engineer but just increasingly curious about chemistry and biology, so I'm really considering going back to school! Even if I don't get a degree, just to learn more chemistry and biology (I mostly love microbiology).
Oh my God you have my respect as soon as you mentioned styrene
Why is that?
@@livebungusreaction I fucking love styrene
@@horhaythebigmacguy3836 damn you converted me, I fucking love styrene now as well
Roses are red, violets are blue, I’m honored to be on a watchlist with you.
Its crazy realizing that I've reached the point in my 2nd Semester Orgo that I have a grasp of each of these reactions. I even thought to myself, "imagine he does a Grignard." Thanks for this.
I like the Vince Gilligan purposefully picked things to do wrong on the show that chemists would know were wrong. he was basically told by AMC to have the characters never explain how to actually make meth and to not only leave key steps out, but to include intentional mistakes that would result in nothing useful being created if they were actually followed. and of course, they added the whole color thing for plot reasons
The color thing was actually based off a case back when, where a guy put food coloring in his meth to distinguish it on the street.
didn't he ask the feds to help him too?
I wish that instead of "purity" that they did something else, since no one would care or even be able to tell the difference between 97% and 99%.
I can see why they did it, since for the plot to work Walter's meth needed to be the best stuff on the market to give a reason why he's so successful.
One option I think would have been better is if Walter uses his knowledge from Grey Matter to make a new kind of meth that's stronger and more addictive, but is hard to synthesize and requires skills, knowledge, and equipment that only he has. That could also be where the blue color comes from, too.
@@ENCHANTMEN_ere are 2 entaniomers (mirror chemicals) of methamphetamine, all meth is a mix of those two, dextrorotary and levorotary. you want more dex than levo by far, known as D-Methamphetamine. most street meth has a racemic (50/50) or so ratio of dex to levo, but there are methods to make d amphetamine and ditch the levo, so it could be smth like that idk, since its harder to achieve and believe me you can definitely tell the difference between good d methamphetamine and regular racemic methamphetamine
@@a.d1775 bros like 20 years old and a professional on meth 💀 i dont even need to tell you how fucked up that is
3:20 This is an invalid synthesis. The Grignard would attack the less substituted carbon of the epoxide. But more importantly, the proposed product of this Grignard is invalid: the product includes a carbon with five bonds, and an improper alcohol. Instead, perform a hydroboration-oxidation of styrene to yield a primary alcohol. Oxidize the alcohol via PCC and then install a methyl group via a Grignard. Very fun video concept!
4:09 Also, the methylamine addition to the carbonyl is valid, but remember that in order for reduction by LiAlH4 to occur, the carbonyl must be intact and so the oxide resulting from the methylamine addition can't be reduced directly. Dehydration then hydrogenation is a better option here.
I am aware, there's a reason
Awesome video. Great in depth explanations, it’s clear you really know your stuff
I swear my UA-cam recommendations is gonna get me on a list
Every single second of this video is a lab tech nightmare
Thank you, I was interested in chemistry before (not for making horrible substances that will kill me from shame), but when you said you can make anything from basically anything.. That sparked the chemicals inside my brain, so I thank you for that.
Not really XD anything from anything this aint alchemy haha
Methamphetamine isn’t a horrible substance. I need it to function (prescription Desoxyn).
@@shashankbj3804 it is organic chemistry bro..
@@dewilew2137 cocaine isn’t a horrible substance, I need it to function (crackhead).
I’m just joking with you, I like beneficial micro dosing of such substances, I might do nicotine patches.
"Sir, after reviewing your purchasing history. I see that you have been purchasing a lot of Lego's. Eleven Thousand Dollars to be exact. and yet you don't seem to come off as the type of person to play with those... what are you using these purchases for?"
"to make my meth lab. obviously."
"Parents, talk to your children about Legos, before someone else does."
I think you made a mistake at 3:31. A grignard reagent attacking an epoxide will attack MOSTLY at the least steric carbon because it is an SN2 reaction. Which would be example 2 in the video........ AND that is where the mistake is. The epoxide will open with the oxygen on the benzyl carbon making 1_phenyl_propan-1-ol. But in your example you put the oxygen on the SAME carbon as you put the grignard methyl group making 1_phenyl_propan_2_ol . That is WRONG.
Look at you. John it’s me Walter👍👍
@@ketaminefiend4485 ...........Hey what's up buddy
But after oxidation of this alcohol to propiophenon, you could use CuBr for an α-ketoaminiation or from the alcohol via NBS…but Lego as a source for styrene is a horrible choice o.o
Every time I see a post about a chemisty technique or "recipe" I see comments saying its wrong. Does no one know anything? How does anything get done? Meanwhile tweakers allegedly make this shit in their sheds?
@@TastiLead Use plastic silverware the clear kind melted down have fun
The fact that something that produces absurd amounts of dopamine can be turned into something that produces even more dopamine is kinda funny to me. I'm sitting here listening to this like "dude how much freetime do you have"
It moderates reuptake inhibition.
I’m studying for my o-chem final and i was just going over Grignard rxns. It’s so cool to see the stuff i study in school translate into real-life things like making meth
Cool video bro please just make more chemistry videos U explained ts well and u definitely know what ur talking about
Cool dude, you made me look up the reaction, never heard of it. Reawakend my interest, starting to understand more. Thank you! I really want to learn more. The first reaction that got me interested was the Maillard reaction, in cooking and baking, and i started experimenting, but now i feel like i should go to school , to labs and start from 0. To really understand life, evolution and the chmical rections and compounds. Shit man, you got me excited!, thanks again! :D
Top recept! Gebruik het al jaren met succes
After watching Nile turn plastic gloves into grape soda I am convinced by anything
What would be the best solvent to use for recrystallization in hopes of removing any potentially remaining residual adulterants as possible? Thank you!
suspicious question
warm methanol
@@ham2645 mind yo business, son
@@TheChan27 There are 4 dea offices in the state of Ohio. Keep that in mind.
Somebody help me. Should I be laughing or crying.
Thought this was gonna be a nile red parody but now I’m on a watchlist thanks
This is the most bizarre shit. Next I'm going to learn more about fertilizer for science! And to raise my FBI agents blood pressure.
Ps. Sorry guys. That wasn't funny on second thought. Y'all probably exist.
im convinced you put me in some watchlist now
The dream of a chemist is the nightmare of a chemical engineer… 😅 4:07 needs a lot of calculations to massaproduce this efficient
I don't know why I expected him to pull a NileRed and make it 💀
This video just got recommended to me and it was the most damn interesting thing and I'm glad you made it even if you haven't made anything else! Thank you!
I'm... going back to mechanical engineering
I feel like I am on a watchlist now
You have always been on at least three watchlists.
The question is not if you are on their list, but which of their lists you are on.
When Jesse starts playing with legos, this is what Walter does.
I think you can get that thoriumdioxide catalyst from Albemarle in Amsterdam.
They make catalysts for fuel processing there.
They even shape their granulate catalysts to best process oil at different stages, which is why they are a biiiiig player in that field.
Why did i think he was gonna explain chemistry using legos as the visual aid, and not literally turning a lego into a meth. Thanks, im now probably on a government watchlist.
When your son asks you where his lego box went.
>click on drug-related video
>dutch accent
LEKKER MAN...
did you use any software to make those diagrams in your explanations? They look so great!
I don't know what he used but I'll suggest using Latex if it's just the formatting/displaying of it that matters. It has a Chemistry formulae package.
Chemdraw is what I use
Good video. I also like the message at the end
My dumbass really thought he was gonna make methamphetamine in this video
My UA-cam recommendation rotation is unmatched.
Sick video
What of just make a pure crystal extract from the plant ephedra S. ? Would this not take a lot of work out of the process other than all the washing to clean of the plant fats that remain with each pull?
But my kid doesn't have any ephedra in his closet! BTW, if you are "washing fats with each pull" you deserve what you get...
Why not have some spun out tweaker piss up your ass when they are coming down from their binge? Recycle chems instead of fouling & degrading our planet further by exploiting a slow-growing plant.
Well, now i know why legos were being stolen at record clip for awhile.
this bouta blow up. i can smell it in the air
Jij bent 100% nederlands en ik vind je 100% geweldig! Great job my man 😎
Are you Dutch by any chance?
Well people. It's an honour to be on the watchlist with y'all
This seems like UA-cam content from 2010
The good times
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legos and meth actually go fantastic together
my guy sound like he supplying the entirety of eindhoven with crack
Why at 3:35 in 2nd possible product (bottom), would the epoxide open that way. Wouldnt the O-C bond on the right side be pushed up instead of the left one?
finally my Lego collection will be useful.
Ohhhhh those sexy sexy benzine rings
can we get a practical of this like how youd break it down
Now you know why polystyrene coffee cups were outlawed. Thank god for packing peanuts, amirite? Order fragile shit now before the ban! (giggle)
Whatta
Let's smoke Legos!
Waltuh, put your bricks away waltuh.
Maybe take the styrene and do a hydroboration oxidation to make 2_phenyl_1_ethanol and then oxidize that to an aldehyde with bleach(hypochlorous acid) and make 2_phenyl acetaldehyde. Then do a grignard with that and methyl bromide to make 1_phenyl isopropanol. Oxidize that to p2p with bleach(hypochlorous acid) and then do a reductive amination to make meth .........BAMM
A valid alternative route, but this video was for educational purposes.
not for a practical discussion on synthetic strategy.
perhaps that can be another video
Isn't this the general method of preparation
@@devd_rx nah
I was just looking for a video on how MEK is applied to "glue" bricks... I have no words.
There seems to be a mistake in the structure of the product at 3:28 . The grignard reagent opens the epoxide but the epoxide oxygen goes to the beta carbon instead of the alpha carbon. Same thing at 3:38 when the epoxide is opened. Am I seeing things or is that a genuine mistake?
yeah, you're correct
Yes you're correct, there's a legal reason for that, It had to be obvious enough
Great video, can you also make a video on distribution of said product? (Asking for a friend)
I was never good with organic chemistry thats why I work in EMS but as a first responder I do find this interesting I've run into my fair share of meth addicts
Consider it a mark of your honor that I never subscribed to anyone after watching just one video of them.
I always loved chemistry(physical and organic) but hated the way it was taught to us, I haven't watch breaking bad but after this I sure will
Its an incredible show, trust me
I really hope you endup uploading more, the explanation is sound and the concept behind is really cool. Im not a chemist but i supprisingly learned alot in this video even thow it was quite technical
"And that's how I lost my medical license"
Just wanna comment before the algorithm kicks in in 5 years.
Its kicking in and im seeing things.
SHITS KICKING IN REAL FUCKING HARD RIGHT NOW WOHOO MAN I LOVE LEGOS
Shit's kicking rn
Blowing yourself up twice in an effort to see through one experiment would show a level of determination most people don't possess and quite the accomplishment in and of itself, I say kudo's. Failure this is not.
I just can't stop thinking about how if NileRed did a video like this, He'd actually make the meth and (at least pretend to) snort it afterwards to check if he made it right.
I'm glad it DIDN'T go that way, but it's an interesting thought that psuedo is the easiest way to make meth, but it's definitely not the only way. You just gotta find something that has the chemicals you want, and moving towards making meth is usually a lower-energy state than it starts as.
meth being uniquely suited to this based on just how simple the actual molecule is compared to many others
I finished all of my OCHEM classes and this video makes me happy
I had to watch, this is just bizarre, lol. I don't use meth, but this is interesting.
I had to do some meth, this is interesting, lol. I don't watch UA-cam, but this is just bizarre.
That's what you get from studying organic chemistry. Years ago I used to watch these videos for fun understanding nothings. Now I understand something and it makes me nervous about the test next month.
Correct me if I’m wrong but Walt was making meth with methylamine phenylacetone and an aluminium amalgam. Someone maybe can also correct me on this but when synthesising meth using phenylacetone you create a 50/50 racemic mixture of Levo and dextro methamphetamine litterally making his meth 50% in “quality”. Using pseudo does give you 100% dextromethamphetamine and unless he separated the dextro from the levo he would’ve went back In quality.
That 50% of each is 99%> pure. Easy to separate
@@Just.A.T-Rex No, since these are enantiomers, they have identical chemical properties. It is possible to sepearate if you do enantiomeric resolution (which requires reacting the product with a chiral molecule to make diastereomers, separating the products, and performing another reaction to get rid of the other chiral molecule), or passing it through a chiral column (which is expensive). So in short, the separation is possible, but not easy in any way.
I don't know that the levo has much undesirable action so having it there isn't necessarily a problem. The dextro is what you want though. A process that isolates it is obviously preferable. Kind of a boring molecule anyway with the specificity of needing the isomer being the only interesting part. Unless you happen to have ADHD - where the amphetamines have super useful effect that other stimulants can't match for some reason. That's the big cool application. ADHD is ultra common and life destroying.
@@Ormaaj it's far less psychoactive . So yeah, from a meth seller perspective. Big problem.
Did you make a video of two things I like!? Subscribed!
I'm studying chemistry for JEE Advanced and I was a bit proud to be able to understand half of the reactants used 😅
Plot twist: I'm preparing for me chemistry lab period tomorrow
This is really dumb since you can produce phenylpropanol with the grignard reagent from benzyl chloride, reacted with acetaldehyde and then neutralized with hydrochloric acid. This is from the bunk methamphetamine recipe in the so-called anarchist cookbook, which does not produce methamphetamine but does produce 1 phenyl 2 propanol in pretty high yield
the point is to start with styrene aka legos dumbass
Why is this the only video you’ve made?
Clearly hasn’t been contacted by anyone cause the videos still up…
I love these chemistry videos
Don't give Nile red any ideas
this will help me start with my new business. much appreciated
I wonder how the price would compare to using lego to 3D printing filament.
Wow this video blew up
You buy your son a Lego kit for his birthday, a few days later he goes "Look daddy I made meth"