too much work... LAAM is a major metabloite too. Grind up a pill or extract the juice and place the base in a casserol with Fe filings and acetic ahydride. Crude, inexact, very poor yield but enough to fool most immunoassays.. <piglet@hushmail.com> wrote in message news:1163529697.213798.76780@e3g2000cwe.googlegroups.com... > > fafat91 wrote: >> Hello. many friends and people i know in methadon program have the big >> problem of urine test to see if they are positive and taking only this >> stuff. The test is axed about the identification of methadon metabolit >> and methadon itself. Adds methadon at the right dosage in urine is not >> a problem. Everybody who knows a minimum chemistry can do that. >> The question is : How to do the synthesis of the synthesis of >> 2-ethylidine-1,5 dimethyl-3,3-diphenylpyraline (EDDP). >> I didn't investigate fully in the usual chemistry book and i should. >> May be this synthesis is in the Chemical abstract indexed...If this >> problem could be solved, a lot of people would be happy. >> If somebody has informations or idea about it; thanks in advance for >> everybody . There is a lot of "magic" product sold on the net. Most if >> not all are scams. > > Well, follow the methadone synthesis replacing the dimethyl amino with > plain methyl. It will cyclize (dehydrate) on heating to 45c >