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Originally Posted by junior94
I guess I'm just naive of the drug trade, but I still don't understand how this isn't just essentially one big math equation. If someone's got detailed instructions, of you take this chemical and that chemical, you pour it into this object and mix it in that object in this specific order, how can't anyone (especially who's now done it multiple times, including directly with Walt), basically can't produce much the same product. I mean yea I guess it was "art" that Walt originally knew how to put this recipe together, but that's just what it is now, a recipe. It's black and white science. I mean unless we're talking about that, if it is indeed Todd, he doesn't have full access to exactly the same original chemicals, then yea okay that makes more sense to me. But I don't think that's ever really been indicated.
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Oh, you think it's just a recipe?
Catalytic hydrogenation; is it protic or aprotic? Because I forget. And if our reduction is not stereospecific then how can our product be enantiomerically pure? I mean, is 1 phenyl, 1 hydroxyl 2 methylaminopropane containing, of course, chiral centers at carbons number 1 and 2 on the propane chain? Then reduction to methamphetamine eliminates which chiral center is it again? Because I forgot. Come on, help me out, professor!
What happens when you get a bad barrel of precursor? Or how would you even know it? And what happens in the summer when-- When-- When the humidity rises and your product goes cloudy? How would you guard against that?