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So bremac posted how to synthesize testosterone from DHEA a while back and I've been seriously considering it:
(Copy and pasted from bremac's forum post)
experimental: DHEA was purchased from china in one kg quantity, methanol
or methylhydrate from canadian tire, sodium borohydride from a hydrogen
cell engine supplier online fifteen grams for fifteen dollars, good for
60 grams test. 10 grams DHEA dissolved in 400ml methanol and stirred using
a milk frother in a regular glass nestled in ice. 2.5 grams sodium boro are
slowly added as powder at a rate that does not allow the temp to exceed 40C.
if a slurry forms thats good, it means product is forming, just add more cold
methanol. after a total of one hour add vinegar until the bubbling on addition
stops then dump into a liter of ice water. filter thru coffe filter and squeeze
dry. dry in oven at 60C. activated manganese dioxide is made from manganese
dioxide from a ceramics supplier and then its boiled in nitirc acid to activate.
make nitric acid by adding boiled down battery acid to stump remover
(potassium nitrate) then boiling inside a bottle with a hose running to another
bottle nestled in ice to collect the nitric acid. filter and rinse with an anhydrous
solvent like a fuel system water remover, activated mang diox must be absolute dry.
put the diol from the first step in 300ml acetic acid then slowly add the mang diox as
a powder same fashion as above, stir for six to ten hours, you won't over oxidize
since exact molar equivalents are used. now flood the reaction with five times volume
ice water and filter out the base test plus unreacted diol and DHEA, minimum purity
will be about 70%
Basically you're reducing the carbonyl in DHEA to form a diol which is then randomly oxidized (testosterone product favorable) to get at least 70% testosterone. The problem is that the position of the double bond in DHEA... It is one carbon away from where it is in testosterone... Does anyone have any ideas? How can this problem be solved or does it need to be solved? Do you think the hormone will work like testosterone to some degree?
(Copy and pasted from bremac's forum post)
experimental: DHEA was purchased from china in one kg quantity, methanol
or methylhydrate from canadian tire, sodium borohydride from a hydrogen
cell engine supplier online fifteen grams for fifteen dollars, good for
60 grams test. 10 grams DHEA dissolved in 400ml methanol and stirred using
a milk frother in a regular glass nestled in ice. 2.5 grams sodium boro are
slowly added as powder at a rate that does not allow the temp to exceed 40C.
if a slurry forms thats good, it means product is forming, just add more cold
methanol. after a total of one hour add vinegar until the bubbling on addition
stops then dump into a liter of ice water. filter thru coffe filter and squeeze
dry. dry in oven at 60C. activated manganese dioxide is made from manganese
dioxide from a ceramics supplier and then its boiled in nitirc acid to activate.
make nitric acid by adding boiled down battery acid to stump remover
(potassium nitrate) then boiling inside a bottle with a hose running to another
bottle nestled in ice to collect the nitric acid. filter and rinse with an anhydrous
solvent like a fuel system water remover, activated mang diox must be absolute dry.
put the diol from the first step in 300ml acetic acid then slowly add the mang diox as
a powder same fashion as above, stir for six to ten hours, you won't over oxidize
since exact molar equivalents are used. now flood the reaction with five times volume
ice water and filter out the base test plus unreacted diol and DHEA, minimum purity
will be about 70%
Basically you're reducing the carbonyl in DHEA to form a diol which is then randomly oxidized (testosterone product favorable) to get at least 70% testosterone. The problem is that the position of the double bond in DHEA... It is one carbon away from where it is in testosterone... Does anyone have any ideas? How can this problem be solved or does it need to be solved? Do you think the hormone will work like testosterone to some degree?
