BUTYLONE

Butylone, also known as β-keto-N-methylbenzodioxolylbutanamine, is an entactogen, psychedelic, and stimulant psychoactive drug of the phenethylamine chemical class. Butylone was first synthesized by Koeppe, Ludwig, and Zeile in 1967. It remained an obscure product of academia until 2005

Butylone can be synthesized in a laboratory via the following route: 3,4-methylenedioxybutyrophenone dissolved in dichloromethane to bromine gives 3′,4′-methylenedioxy-2-bromobutyrophenone. This product was then dissolved in dichloromethane and added to an aqueous solution of methylamine (40%). HCl was then added. The aqueous layer was removed and made alkaline by using sodium bicarbonate. For the extraction of the amine ether was used. To get butylone a drop of ether and HCl solution was added