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Wow. Cool. I wonder how hard are the synthesises of the useful antidepressants like mirtazapine.

Also, I found ASX-05 (Phase III) uses a DM metabolite that is retained much more by the addition of brupropion. DM is the stuff in some cough syrups.



Well, mirtazapine isn't scheduled in the US so you can probably get some precursors with relative ease. You can find the synthesis info online [1] and at least some of the chemicals used in the synthesis are available online [2], though for the price it seems like it might be more economically feasible to just buy a pill from a pharma company.

[1] http://www.arkat-usa.org/get-file/22868/ [2] http://www.sigmaaldrich.com/catalog/product/aldrich/648434?l...




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