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The coca plant is 11 alkaloids. Cocaine is only one. The full spectrum is incredibly special and a super “food” ?? Supplement? 6:10 mary curie? What a joke. You mean Mercury? Mary curie. General public has no no clue
Well, considering that the euphoria is principally provided by the compounds action of inhibiting the release of Serotonin, do you really think he would be able to produce that much serotonin that many times a day? Someone here is not telling the truth, and I bet it’s Freud. He shouldn’t even have been able to use it in a daily basis for long periods of time and produce any results. The damage to his body’s natural functions would be untold.
Absolute mad lad. If I recall right he accidentally invented the epidural block by deciding on a whim to inject cocaine into his spine. I can only imagine what his notes were like on that one... "Experiment has failed to imbue 'spinal confidence'. Actually now I've come down a bit from this morning's more usual dosage I'm not even sure 'Spinal Confidence' makes sense as a concept. Anyway. Sure do hope this paralysis is temporary!"
@@Srax499the lie is that it doesn’t elevate the mind, it alters it by inducing a chemical reaction which subjects the user to euphoria. Which works but is ultimately the illusion of elevation, True elevation would genuinely enhance function. And from what we know of cocaine users, they aren’t more cognitively adept then those of a sober mind.
The total synthesis of morphine is really interesting too, it’s something like 13-15 steps. Completely non viable for industry, but there are some cool steps.
@@stefanschleps8758 it’s making morphine from scratch that’s that many steps. It’s so complex and low yielding that we just let the poppy plants do it because it’s just a simple a/b extraction at that point. Though there are genetically modified yeasts that can produce opioids now but I haven’t heard of them being adopted for production purposes yet. Morphine to heroin is one step, that’s true. It’s just an acetylation.
It was also our entry point to topical anaesthetics, and from there, nerve blocks. For a long time, ether was the only anaesthetic, but came with an extreme risk of sudden death. Many, many people died on operating tables from ether, including women in childbirth. Cocaine led us to epidurals.
@@totalsynthesis It's not going to last. A while ago someone published a video on machining a certain device capable of accelerating projectiles in a form factor suitable to hold it in your hand. Despite the fact that this was completely legal in his jurisdiction, he did not give exact instructions or published CAD files, and the fact that you need orders of magnitude more expensive machines, tooling and material vs what it costs to just buy that device, the video was gone in a matter of hours.
@@graealex I bet it'll stay - if someone can use this video to make cocaine I'm sure they can do it already by reading the same papers. This is not something a random person will be able to copy and attempt in their kitchen.
A US pharmaceutical advertisement for NUMBRINO (cocaine hydrochoride nasal solution) would be the best thing to happen to the internet since chicken-in-the-corn.
You forgot, it's numbrino cocaine hydrochloride 4% {40 mg/ml} NASAL spray lol that's stronger than the 1 % topical solution I've seen a picture of That's enough to get a person all Freudian lol
Good job and you my friend are a fantastic chemist! Especially if you've completed this synthesis as its quite complex. Not as complex as that of LSD but still quite complex hence the natural cocaine process is still in use today. Agreed cocaine use is on the rise but the current 50-year-old obviously failed "drug war" is to blame. More police, more courts, more prisons and yet 1,000,000 dead in American and counting. Reduce demand through comprehensive drug treatment and decades long neglected needed societal reforms such as living wage jobs, affordable housing, and education and voila you reduce the sale of drugs. Simply puy you reduce the DEMAND side, and the supply side takes care of itself.
@@totalsynthesisAnd such beautiful chemistry! My ochem prof promised us that we'd make him proud by quickly and efficiently making meth cuz Walter White was the worst most inefficient chemist ever 😂
This information isn't going anywhere, it would be way more expensive and dangerous to try this method plus it's so ridiculously complex that basement chemists wont even bother. I'm fascinated that people even figured this out, life sure is amazing.
Actually, if I think about it: 1.) acetone dicarboxylic acid can be made from citric acid by oxidative decarboxylation in sulfuric acid below 10C 2.) methyl amine can be made from acetamide and bleach in a hoffman degradation (and acetamide is made simply from ammonium acetate) 3.) succinic dialdehyde is the tricky part… it could be made from THF by breaking the ether bond with sulfuric and water followed by CrO3/Pyridine oxidation To make the acetone dicarboxylic acid semi-ester, it should be enough to turn it into the salt and react it with a methylating agent while keeping the dicarboxylic salt in great excess and the solutions sufficiently diluted. Then it’s just a matter of separating the semi-ester. Another way would be to dissolve the free acid it in a dry cold etheric solution and add a diluted etheric solution of sulfur trioxide which should steal water and turn it into the anhydride. Then, when nearly all is reacted, in the dry etheric solution add some methanol and warm it up. This should break the anhydride bond and form an ester and a carboxyl acid group. Separating the mono-ester shouldn’t be too hard in either case, the calcium salt of the di-carboxylic acid is water insoluble while the semi-ester calcium salt is more soluble. Then react them all together, make the substituted tropione, reduce the ketone with sodium borohydride then add sodium benzoate and acid and do a final esterification.
@@totalsynthesis You could also cover many examples of these kinds of studies explored by many different chemists. I've always been curious about how they elucidated chemical structures in that time period before modern analytical methods. Thanks!
The best part is that if the acetone dicarboxylic acid is a semi-ester, the second decarboxylation doesn’t occur and you get the perfectly substitute product in one step.
I had to read this a few times to comprehend 😂 good argument for a video on chair structures! Semi-ester though... I'ma be hitting the literature to see what that is.
@@SharpAssKnittingNeedles By semi-ester I just mean one one the two carboxyl groups in acetonedicarboxylic acid is esterified and the other is free. So, the free one undergoes decarboxylation but the esterified one remains as-is. This helps since you don’t need to do a future re-functionalisation.
Really love this video. Funnily enough, my masters project was to figure out how to synthesise the core skeleton of a tropane in a structurally related tropane to cocaine through a [3+2] nitrone-alkene cycloaddition - it didn't work and I made pyrolles but man, that original synthesis via the Robinson's route is one I have in my thesis introduction. Love the chemistry videos from you, keep it up.
That's so cool, you made a pseudo cocaine Is there a way to make cocaine longer acting, and so suitable as a replacement drug? Similar to buprenorphine
@@90klh I didn't make it, the methodology doesn't work - to form a tropane from the [3+2] approach, the major competing reaction is dehydration-aromatisation to pyrolle
That was a wonderful and enjoyable tour through history not only of that particular compound but cehcmical history, some social history and a really detailed and engaging presentation of the chemistry. Some of that is well beyond me but certainly worth watcching. Thanks
I can already imagine those biochemists discussing on what to do: "alright lads we know the biosynthesis pathway of cocaine now we have to put it into another plant any suggestion?" "Tobacco plant!" "Brilliant idea! Nicotine and cocaine in the same cigarette! You got yourself a promotion" "And make sure to fertilize it real good so those cigarettes are gonna be real special"
It seems it would be a simple process for chemists to begin by extracting specific alkaloids from Datura Stramonium (atropine, hyoscyamine, scopolamine) as they are structurally similar and it doesn't seem like it would be that complex of a reaction series to convert to the target molecule.
Its fascinating that cocaine binds to the kappa opioid receptors, and honestly i think thats why it works better for (tooth) pain, in my very VERY limited experience, than lidocaine or any of it's analogs. It's like it keeps kiling pain even after the local anesthetic effects wear off. And this eas a small dose, not even enough to cause any kind of psychoactive effects..... Hrm :/ I wonder what part of the cocaine molecule interacts with kappa opioid receptors, and could we keep that, while removing the dopaminergic reuptake inhibition, like how lidocaine is a structural analoge
Kappa opioid agonists are interesting, though its effects on the central nervous system are uncomfortable (dysphoria, hallucinations, etc). Limiting the CNS effects could make them a potential painkiller though. ....And anti-itch. There's a peripheral kappa-opioid agonist used in Japan for itching due to chronic kidney disease.
@@isoflurain indeed, their effects are less than fun, but that's kinda a good thing- talwin works quite well for pain, but causes absolutely no buzz, just a vague deadened feeling and a deep apathy But that's way better than a rush of euphoria so profound you just cry (what I did my first time taking Vicodin). I think we should use our kappa agonists more in medicine.
This is a layman’s guess but when looking at the structures of opioids they all tend to have tertiary amines, and often ketones which cocaine has both. That doesn’t explain salvinorin A though
Even if you know how to synthesize a molecule, how do you know which molecule to make? There's a billion combinations to choose from. How do scientists decide what to make?
Whatever is interesting enough from a chemistry perspective (like this molecule looks very complex, so just making it might be challenge enough - note: this school of thought is dying out) or a broader scientific perspective (for example trying to make slightly different but more potent versions of medicines). However very pragmatically, much of the research is based on what research groups believe will be publishable in journals.
@@totalsynthesis Thanks for the answer. I'm obviously a total noob, but I find it fascinating to go back in time and wonder what prompted scientists 100 years ago to choose a particular structure, not even knowing what it could be used for, and even tasting it without knowing whether it would kill them. They couldn't be bothered with rats or mice, they just tried it themselves. True heroes (or fools, depending on your point of view).
Educational interest in chemistry that is all, nothing sinister at all. What happened in 2015 2:08 Did they start cutting it more, that curve is looking almost exponential?!
Funny how Freud talks about "increased self-control" and "capacity for work". Saying "you are normal" about using probably high purity coke? lol. Me thinks Freud had ADHD
Could they make a super opium plant, one that makes hydromorphone instead of just morphine? I mean they already made cocaine containing tobacco, imagine trying to quit smoking THOSE cigarettes. 0_o normal tobacco is bad enough
I'm not a chemist, so fogive me for not knowing, but it seems to me that double bonds (especially in carbon) seem to be less flexible. Is that an accurate observation?
Exactly as the gentleman pointed out. They can still wiggle around a bit but there is no rotation. This means the arrangement of the double bond is "locked" (whereas single bonds can turn around like crazy)
I think the tobacco yield is like 0.2 grams per pound of tobacco at a 100% yield. That looks strictly academic, but useful for building Organic synthesis machines that can do organic reactions, you cant unlock with a chemistry set.
Interesting, even the most basic of undergrad reactions I can learn about in a pirated textbook that can be googled in seconds. Yet only a hundred years ago many of these reactions would have been seen as witchcraft. And likley in a hundred years people will be bashing synthesis I have done for using, to them, crude and innefective methods.
Maybe an A.I could help develop an easier synthesis? Or is it somehow impossible to get it even easier at some point? Or at least it could help find a molecule that would be easier/cheaper but has the exact same qualities that make it recreational. Are there any historical anecdotes about Tropacocaine? It's available at the moment but nobody seems to have a good picture of what it actually does, some say it has 20% the potency of cocaine while others claim it only has the unwanted (?) effects on acetylcholine etc.
Easier is already possible (see Robinson's synthesis discussed in later video) but there is no interest/need to make this even more efficient or cheaper (as we dont need more cocaine lol)
for a science chanel i am disappointed in the presentation of your own personal views on cocaine under the guise of science. It is well documented that crack is not more dangerous than powdered cocain.
What do you mean. I found many reports indicating crack cocaine has higher abuse and addictive effects. Eg from the UN report I cite: "It appears that smoking of cocaine results in more inten- sive use patterns. One study among users in treatment5 in CǠicago čniʋed òʋaʋes indicaʋed ʋǠaʋ crack ʠsers consumed 9.1 grams of cocaine per week, considerably ȟore ʋǠan snorʋers ࠂࡲࠄࢎ graȟs and inǿecʋors ࠅࡲࠄࢎ graȟsࡲ č¥¶7C esʋiȟaʋes based on daʋa ljroȟ anoʋǠer sʋʠdy examining marginalized drug users6 in London, United Kingdom, suggest that weekly crack consumption was 4.7 times higher than cocaine salt." In addition you have more acute risks due to the more intense effects from smoking
The rise in cocaine overdose deaths is because of the fact that most of the cocaine is now adulterated with fentanyl, it’s not that common for people to OD on solely cocaine it’s almost always when it’s mixed with other things
Dude, your videos are amazing! Please, include the degradative studies, those are very important to understanding synthesis as they are the reverse process. IF its a matter of screen time that you don't have, take less time with historical background and more with degradative and other REAL interesting chemistry content. Cheers!
Thanks for the comment! Yeah I didnt want to completely focus on chemistry as I wanted to have some topics be relevant for non chemists as well. Might include it in a future one!
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Drug war is the problem. Quit being a puppet. ..... and do as the swiss. No drug war.
The coca plant is 11 alkaloids. Cocaine is only one. The full spectrum is incredibly special and a super “food” ?? Supplement?
6:10 mary curie?
What a joke. You mean Mercury? Mary curie. General public has no no clue
8:40 Coca leaves are 100% still used in coca cola production. Coca Cola has some sort of monopoly on coca importation in the usa. It’s bs.
10:45 What about atropine to coke ? Ok ..... coke analog
17:32 i have coniine. Likely getting rid of my collection soon. But not sure what to do with it.
19:40. I heard you just say OG.
After you a mason?
Freud wasn't an addict he safely used it 57x per day for 30 years with no sign of addiction - just ask him.
😂😂😂
Good ol' Ciggy. @user-rk8pn4xk6j
Well, considering that the euphoria is principally provided by the compounds action of inhibiting the release of Serotonin, do you really think he would be able to produce that much serotonin that many times a day?
Someone here is not telling the truth, and I bet it’s Freud. He shouldn’t even have been able to use it in a daily basis for long periods of time and produce any results. The damage to his body’s natural functions would be untold.
He wasn't addicted, he just liked the smell
Absolute mad lad. If I recall right he accidentally invented the epidural block by deciding on a whim to inject cocaine into his spine. I can only imagine what his notes were like on that one... "Experiment has failed to imbue 'spinal confidence'. Actually now I've come down a bit from this morning's more usual dosage I'm not even sure 'Spinal Confidence' makes sense as a concept. Anyway. Sure do hope this paralysis is temporary!"
RUclips just casually wants us to be on a watchlist
now this is something you should absolutely try at home
Especially the part around genetic engineering of tobacco plants
"The analytical data doesn't lie bro"
The data in question:
"beautiful off-white crystals which elevate your mind when ingested"
where's the lie
@@davidcollins6164haha true where is the lie
@@Srax499the lie is that it doesn’t elevate the mind, it alters it by inducing a chemical reaction which subjects the user to euphoria. Which works but is ultimately the illusion of elevation, True elevation would genuinely enhance function. And from what we know of cocaine users, they aren’t more cognitively adept then those of a sober mind.
The total synthesis of morphine is really interesting too, it’s something like 13-15 steps. Completely non viable for industry, but there are some cool steps.
Yes good idea, the first synthesis and several approaches since could be interesting for a future video
I guess that depends on how you count steps? Isn't morphine to heroin two steps?
Opium to morphine?
@@stefanschleps8758 it’s making morphine from scratch that’s that many steps. It’s so complex and low yielding that we just let the poppy plants do it because it’s just a simple a/b extraction at that point. Though there are genetically modified yeasts that can produce opioids now but I haven’t heard of them being adopted for production purposes yet. Morphine to heroin is one step, that’s true. It’s just an acetylation.
@@stefanschleps8758that’s distillation not synthesis
@@stefanschleps8758 TOTAL synthesis, not extraction from organic materials
The first person to synthesize cocaine, discovered structure and function of Chlorophyll A. Science is wild.
Tropane
It was also our entry point to topical anaesthetics, and from there, nerve blocks. For a long time, ether was the only anaesthetic, but came with an extreme risk of sudden death. Many, many people died on operating tables from ether, including women in childbirth. Cocaine led us to epidurals.
Chemistry is fucking wild.
It’s astonishing that people learned how to do stuff like this.
Hi watchlist buddies! Glad to see everyone here watching RUclips recommended content. 😊
When are we getting the watch ?
@@zorintoto1167I been waiting on mine for 3 years. No Rollie yet
Coincidence that I was “randomly selected” by the tsa for an enhanced total swab analysis search at the airport yesterday? I think not….
I kind of want to download this and re-render it with NileRed’s voice narrating.
His voice fits so fucking well with this kind of stuff
"Absolutely no craving after first or even continued usage"
LOOOL
How ironic
to be fair coca leaf addiction is much rarer afaik
Cravings don't start until you run out, he could just full metal alchemist his own.
RUclips now what to recommend
if the synthesis wasnt so difficult, we would see cool psychedelic anologues like we do with phenethylamines
The cocaine industry is wealthy enough to set up R&Ds I would think.
🤔 We should let them know.....
Do you speak Spanish ?
I doubt you could have psychedelic cocaine analogues, Amphetamine primarily targets GPCRs while cocaine is primarily an inhibitor
Back in my jam band days I would dump 100 hits of lsd on a ball or two, we called it rainblow and it was amazing and as bad as it soinfs 😂
@@sunnohh by the time you can even consume that much LSD it’s probably not working anymote
@@flipsterfloppa9065but it seems to attach itself to sigma receptors... hence the bell rings?
I've read one or two papers on it. Didn't think anyone would be brave enough to put it on RUclips. Quickly saving that video to my HDD, though.
😂😂😂
@@totalsynthesis It's not going to last. A while ago someone published a video on machining a certain device capable of accelerating projectiles in a form factor suitable to hold it in your hand.
Despite the fact that this was completely legal in his jurisdiction, he did not give exact instructions or published CAD files, and the fact that you need orders of magnitude more expensive machines, tooling and material vs what it costs to just buy that device, the video was gone in a matter of hours.
@@graealex I bet it'll stay - if someone can use this video to make cocaine I'm sure they can do it already by reading the same papers. This is not something a random person will be able to copy and attempt in their kitchen.
@@fmdj You're right that it's not an amateur guide. But that's 100% true for the video I mentioned. Even more so.
@@fmdj Btw the video in question was from "Adam the machinist". It's still up on his Patreon for free.
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2-CMT + NaHg/acid -> EME salt/ PEM salt -> base (EME freebase) -> separation from PEM/HCl salt formation -> cocaine HCl
So, in short; it's easier to just build your own submarine and pilot it through the Caribbean.
Pretty much!
Love your content man this is a phenomenal video, always presenting a lot of fresh information concerning history+chemistry. Very well done 👏
Thank you!!
Ayyyy noOne
A US pharmaceutical advertisement for NUMBRINO (cocaine hydrochoride nasal solution) would be the best thing to happen to the internet since chicken-in-the-corn.
You forgot, it's numbrino cocaine hydrochloride 4% {40 mg/ml} NASAL spray lol that's stronger than the 1 % topical solution I've seen a picture of
That's enough to get a person all Freudian lol
Chicken in the corn😅😂
I actually bought an empty pharmaceutical bottle of Cocaine hcl 10%
Not sliced bread?
Good job and you my friend are a fantastic chemist! Especially if you've completed this synthesis as its quite complex. Not as complex as that of LSD but still quite complex hence the natural cocaine process is still in use today. Agreed cocaine use is on the rise but the current 50-year-old obviously failed "drug war" is to blame. More police, more courts, more prisons and yet 1,000,000 dead in American and counting. Reduce demand through comprehensive drug treatment and decades long neglected needed societal reforms such as living wage jobs, affordable housing, and education and voila you reduce the sale of drugs. Simply puy you reduce the DEMAND side, and the supply side takes care of itself.
Thanks! Agree, probably need both sides :) and for the record, I did not synthesize this or suggest people to do this!!
LSD.....complex? Uh....not really. But what do I know? 🤭
LSD is easier unless it's the denovo total synthesis.
I feel like I’m going awfully recollect parts of this at an after party soon.
😂
Here before it gets taken down.
Hope it does not, it's all evidence based and just educational review of the peer-reviewed published chemistry!
@@totalsynthesisAnd such beautiful chemistry! My ochem prof promised us that we'd make him proud by quickly and efficiently making meth cuz Walter White was the worst most inefficient chemist ever 😂
This information isn't going anywhere, it would be way more expensive and dangerous to try this method plus it's so ridiculously complex that basement chemists wont even bother. I'm fascinated that people even figured this out, life sure is amazing.
Cody's lab did it- look at the patents (not joking)
No worries of being put on a list for this video, only a simple bathtubable 25 steps
😂😂😂
Actually, if I think about it:
1.) acetone dicarboxylic acid can be made from citric acid by oxidative decarboxylation in sulfuric acid below 10C
2.) methyl amine can be made from acetamide and bleach in a hoffman degradation (and acetamide is made simply from ammonium acetate)
3.) succinic dialdehyde is the tricky part… it could be made from THF by breaking the ether bond with sulfuric and water followed by CrO3/Pyridine oxidation
To make the acetone dicarboxylic acid semi-ester, it should be enough to turn it into the salt and react it with a methylating agent while keeping the dicarboxylic salt in great excess and the solutions sufficiently diluted. Then it’s just a matter of separating the semi-ester. Another way would be to dissolve the free acid it in a dry cold etheric solution and add a diluted etheric solution of sulfur trioxide which should steal water and turn it into the anhydride. Then, when nearly all is reacted, in the dry etheric solution add some methanol and warm it up. This should break the anhydride bond and form an ester and a carboxyl acid group. Separating the mono-ester shouldn’t be too hard in either case, the calcium salt of the di-carboxylic acid is water insoluble while the semi-ester calcium salt is more soluble.
Then react them all together, make the substituted tropione, reduce the ketone with sodium borohydride then add sodium benzoate and acid and do a final esterification.
@@cezarcatalin1406
Are you correct brother ?
If so big respect to your brain if it just computed that here and then 🪄
The degradative studies seem really interesting. Would you consider making a video on that?
Wouldnt be a long one to be honest, but I could combine it with some other Wilstätter work!
@@totalsynthesis You could also cover many examples of these kinds of studies explored by many different chemists. I've always been curious about how they elucidated chemical structures in that time period before modern analytical methods. Thanks!
The best part is that if the acetone dicarboxylic acid is a semi-ester, the second decarboxylation doesn’t occur and you get the perfectly substitute product in one step.
I had to read this a few times to comprehend 😂 good argument for a video on chair structures! Semi-ester though... I'ma be hitting the literature to see what that is.
Chair diagrams good lerd too much gin to do English or arithmetic 😢 time for calculus cuz that's way easier than arithmetic
@@SharpAssKnittingNeedles
By semi-ester I just mean one one the two carboxyl groups in acetonedicarboxylic acid is esterified and the other is free.
So, the free one undergoes decarboxylation but the esterified one remains as-is.
This helps since you don’t need to do a future re-functionalisation.
@@cezarcatalin1406
Ok now I see what you're saying! Very nice!
Really love this video. Funnily enough, my masters project was to figure out how to synthesise the core skeleton of a tropane in a structurally related tropane to cocaine through a [3+2] nitrone-alkene cycloaddition - it didn't work and I made pyrolles but man, that original synthesis via the Robinson's route is one I have in my thesis introduction. Love the chemistry videos from you, keep it up.
Thanks so much! And nice thesis haha
Atropine and scopolamine are also interesting. Their effects a lot more so even.
That's so cool, you made a pseudo cocaine
Is there a way to make cocaine longer acting, and so suitable as a replacement drug? Similar to buprenorphine
@@90klh I didn't make it, the methodology doesn't work - to form a tropane from the [3+2] approach, the major competing reaction is dehydration-aromatisation to pyrolle
@@90klh more like methadon, buprenorfinelike would be a longer acting coke with a ceiling effect because of partial agonism. (To be precise)
Well, that was the las thing that I expected to see in my recommendations.
thank you for this educational video. I feel very educated on the topic of synthesizing cocaine now.
youtube algorithm: gives me this video
me: interesting
Bless the algo
I am disturbed by your use of purple for bromine atoms
Orange 🍊 or brown 🟤 better?
*Cries in royal purple*
@@fukpoeslaw3613For bromine, yes
No wonder it's made using the coca plant lol.
? What is?
Yup, thinking how the plants do such complex synthesis in amazing on its own.
Fine put me back on the watch list, I don't want to make it but I will live vicariously through you
Hello fellow non-police
What seems to be the officer, problem?
Hi , I hope there’s also for Methamphetamine synthesis, for educational purpose only😊 🙏 Thank you
That was a wonderful and enjoyable tour through history not only of that particular compound but cehcmical history, some social history and a really detailed and engaging presentation of the chemistry. Some of that is well beyond me but certainly worth watcching. Thanks
Thank you for your comment and watching! Appreciate it
Only choose organic GMO-free cocaine. Ask your dealer!
The largest users of cocaine are those that can afford it.
Why does the chemical structure on the thumbnail looks like its about to score a goal after doing bicycle kick?
0:15
”The stakes were high”
“Cocaine’s structural complexity was also high”
“And everybody else was high too”
😂😂😂??????
😂😂😂 its not wrong is it??
I can already imagine those biochemists discussing on what to do:
"alright lads we know the biosynthesis pathway of cocaine now we have to put it into another plant any suggestion?"
"Tobacco plant!"
"Brilliant idea! Nicotine and cocaine in the same cigarette! You got yourself a promotion"
"And make sure to fertilize it real good so those cigarettes are gonna be real special"
😂😂😂
It seems it would be a simple process for chemists to begin by extracting specific alkaloids from Datura Stramonium (atropine, hyoscyamine, scopolamine) as they are structurally similar and it doesn't seem like it would be that complex of a reaction series to convert to the target molecule.
For sure, the point here was *total* chemical synthesis
If you make your cocaine like this for yourself you shouldn't be arrested for it 😂
thank you for this educational video. I feel very educated on the topic of synthesizing cocaine now.
Wow, cool video and good educational! I can't believe that RUclips no block by drugs (community rules of our RUclipsr channels) 🎉❤
Subscribed! Love your content. We about to make some moneyyyy!
Its fascinating that cocaine binds to the kappa opioid receptors, and honestly i think thats why it works better for (tooth) pain, in my very VERY limited experience, than lidocaine or any of it's analogs. It's like it keeps kiling pain even after the local anesthetic effects wear off. And this eas a small dose, not even enough to cause any kind of psychoactive effects..... Hrm :/
I wonder what part of the cocaine molecule interacts with kappa opioid receptors, and could we keep that, while removing the dopaminergic reuptake inhibition, like how lidocaine is a structural analoge
Kappa opioid agonists are interesting, though its effects on the central nervous system are uncomfortable (dysphoria, hallucinations, etc). Limiting the CNS effects could make them a potential painkiller though.
....And anti-itch. There's a peripheral kappa-opioid agonist used in Japan for itching due to chronic kidney disease.
@@isoflurain indeed, their effects are less than fun, but that's kinda a good thing- talwin works quite well for pain, but causes absolutely no buzz, just a vague deadened feeling and a deep apathy
But that's way better than a rush of euphoria so profound you just cry (what I did my first time taking Vicodin). I think we should use our kappa agonists more in medicine.
This is a layman’s guess but when looking at the structures of opioids they all tend to have tertiary amines, and often ketones which cocaine has both. That doesn’t explain salvinorin A though
@@90klh for some cases, i agree they do have their own perks
10:02 shapiro reaction! Of course exactly what everyone was thinking immediately...🤣
😂😂😂 this is my version of the ancient rome meme
Insane to say but this video is extremely helpful in my advanced organic chem exam
Thats awesome and the hidden point of the video! 😂
Excellent work! a question. What program do you use to draw the molecules in 3D?
-sees title- nah, theres no way.... (clicks on video knowing im ganna be ona whatch list ((if im not alreadyb😂😂)) )
Even if you know how to synthesize a molecule, how do you know which molecule to make?
There's a billion combinations to choose from. How do scientists decide what to make?
Whatever is interesting enough from a chemistry perspective (like this molecule looks very complex, so just making it might be challenge enough - note: this school of thought is dying out) or a broader scientific perspective (for example trying to make slightly different but more potent versions of medicines). However very pragmatically, much of the research is based on what research groups believe will be publishable in journals.
@@totalsynthesis Thanks for the answer. I'm obviously a total noob, but I find it fascinating to go back in time and wonder what prompted scientists 100 years ago to choose a particular structure, not even knowing what it could be used for, and even tasting it without knowing whether it would kill them. They couldn't be bothered with rats or mice, they just tried it themselves. True heroes (or fools, depending on your point of view).
OMG im about to turn a new heisenberg
Lol good luck upping this synthesis to a breaking bad level.... Good on ya if you figure it out lol
Cocke was good 50 years ago. We have XXI century. This record should be in museums 😆😆😆😆😆
How do they know they have right reaction each time?
Requires a lot of 'analytical' methods to characterize your products! And back in 1901, they sometimes didnt even really know what product they had
Educational interest in chemistry that is all, nothing sinister at all.
What happened in 2015 2:08
Did they start cutting it more, that curve is looking almost exponential?!
Super interesting history on the synthesis of tropinone, I used to be a hardcore coca*ne addict so I know how dangerous this stuff is lol.
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Cocaine for epistaxis: coming back
Im a visual learner could u pls do a diy tutorial?
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Finally, i could start my own business
Of sharing educational science information, got it
Digital Footprint is crazy
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What of im just a cocaine aficionado? Will i get anything out if this video?
Yeah...........your dealers charging you too much! 😅
@@stefanschleps8758🤣 until I learn how to do it myself from this video.
@@sobertillnoonyou should start a RUclips channel about your advancement in cocaïne synthesis. Years and years and decades of content assured!!
Funny how Freud talks about "increased self-control" and "capacity for work".
Saying "you are normal" about using probably high purity coke? lol. Me thinks Freud had ADHD
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_Sings_ I'm in love with the coco. I got it for the low low. I'm in love with the coco!
This is gonna be one of those videos RUclips sends the viewers to the feds
Could they make a super opium plant, one that makes hydromorphone instead of just morphine? I mean they already made cocaine containing tobacco, imagine trying to quit smoking THOSE cigarettes. 0_o normal tobacco is bad enough
Tobacco is used quite often in bioengineering. It's because it grows very fast and has large leaves.
@@pseudomemes5267it’s also a matter of having exploitably similar biosynthetic pathways
Keeping up with NileRed is going to gey yall roped bro.
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Subliminal programming cocaine use increases addiction and relapse? Interesting. Science needs to go further with new data
Cycloheptatriene is not aromatic, however, the tropylium cation is 10:55
Yes
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I due to lack of education cannot understand 95% of the chemistry language but still very interesting lol 🤷♂️
The statisticians being bored was probably right lol
Google algorithm at its best. I didn't search for this.. This searched for me.
Yeah its fucken got ya
Heisenberg does meth, this guy must be Hindenburg
3:45 i've never seen someone label the norepinephrine transporter as NAT, it's always NET
You acrually see both due to norepinephrine also being called noradrenaline
@@totalsynthesis yeah like i get why they chose NAT, it's just that i've literally never seen NAT in any publication
“Hey can I film myself make cocaine and talk abt the process for education” has to be the best call a police station has ever got.😂😂😂
25 steps sounds way too many for a tropane alkaloid, but I guess hindsight is 20/20
Hi NSA agent 👋🏼
I'm not a chemist, so fogive me for not knowing, but it seems to me that double bonds (especially in carbon) seem to be less flexible. Is that an accurate observation?
Yes.
You cannot turn around a double bond, (if i make sense) that's how you can get trans vs cis isomerie.
Exactly as the gentleman pointed out. They can still wiggle around a bit but there is no rotation. This means the arrangement of the double bond is "locked" (whereas single bonds can turn around like crazy)
@@fukpoeslaw3613 Thanks!
@@totalsynthesis Ah gotcha that makes so much sense, thanks!
Hi fbi, I swear I’m just curious
what technique was used to determine the structure of cocaine? I think NMR didn't exist back then
Combination of various methods, but notably Hofmann degradation if you want to look that up
But for sure NMR and most other analytical methods did not exist
I think the tobacco yield is like 0.2 grams per pound of tobacco at a 100% yield. That looks strictly academic, but useful for building Organic synthesis machines that can do organic reactions, you cant unlock with a chemistry set.
Where have you been all my life? ❤
Interesting, even the most basic of undergrad reactions I can learn about in a pirated textbook that can be googled in seconds. Yet only a hundred years ago many of these reactions would have been seen as witchcraft. And likley in a hundred years people will be bashing synthesis I have done for using, to them, crude and innefective methods.
Haha yeah, they will probably use skeletal editing and atom swapping, and think of us as cavemen
2:22 - So, OT Genasis is responsible for more use. Catchy song, but I have doubts.
Freud basically secondhand created the first speedball
Maybe an A.I could help develop an easier synthesis? Or is it somehow impossible to get it even easier at some point? Or at least it could help find a molecule that would be easier/cheaper but has the exact same qualities that make it recreational.
Are there any historical anecdotes about Tropacocaine? It's available at the moment but nobody seems to have a good picture of what it actually does, some say it has 20% the potency of cocaine while others claim it only has the unwanted (?) effects on acetylcholine etc.
Easier is already possible (see Robinson's synthesis discussed in later video) but there is no interest/need to make this even more efficient or cheaper (as we dont need more cocaine lol)
Why make a plant illegal? It being illegal is what makes ppl want it more! Kids are just like adults. And vise versa. And do not want to be told NO!
Doing that without modern structure analytic methods, like NMR and a lot less known chemical methods is quite a challenge.
Absolutely!
Can you the total synthesis of (-)- Hunterine A
Pretty cool one, good suggestion
for a science chanel i am disappointed in the presentation of your own personal views on cocaine under the guise of science. It is well documented that crack is not more dangerous than powdered cocain.
What do you mean. I found many reports indicating crack cocaine has higher abuse and addictive effects. Eg from the UN report I cite: "It appears that smoking of cocaine results in more inten-
sive use patterns. One study among users in treatment5
in CǠicago čniʋed òʋaʋes indicaʋed ʋǠaʋ crack ʠsers
consumed 9.1 grams of cocaine per week, considerably
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č¥¶7C esʋiȟaʋes based on daʋa ljroȟ anoʋǠer sʋʠdy
examining marginalized drug users6
in London, United
Kingdom, suggest that weekly crack consumption was 4.7
times higher than cocaine salt."
In addition you have more acute risks due to the more intense effects from smoking
The rise in cocaine overdose deaths is because of the fact that most of the cocaine is now adulterated with fentanyl, it’s not that common for people to OD on solely cocaine it’s almost always when it’s mixed with other things
Dude, your videos are amazing! Please, include the degradative studies, those are very important to understanding synthesis as they are the reverse process. IF its a matter of screen time that you don't have, take less time with historical background and more with degradative and other REAL interesting chemistry content. Cheers!
Thanks for the comment! Yeah I didnt want to completely focus on chemistry as I wanted to have some topics be relevant for non chemists as well. Might include it in a future one!
RUclips showed this on my for you page for 4 days in a row i dont watch any drug related videos. I have never seen cocain in real life 😂😂
Thanks for clicking nevertheless! My goal is really just clickbaiting people into learning chemistry and science
They should use the "Ask Ned Flanders how it made him feel" technique for all drug brand names.
How does your nose feel, Ned? "Numberino!"
Lmao
Why do you need to synthesize cocaine? It's easily extracted from an easily grown plant.
Beautiful
Holy shit these guys really wanted cocaine
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FBI i'm just watching it for educational purposes only:)