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Originally Posted by 'Hamas' Jenkins
The methylamine was just a precursor needed for the manufacture of methamphetamine.
All methylamine has to be synthesized. Pretty much every organic product you come in contact with on a daily basis is synthesized through an industrial process.
Purity, toxicity, and cost are the biggest issues in organic synthesis.
There are a few different processes I know of (I'm sure there are several others) by which you can produce a primary amine, like methylamine: reductive amination and Gabriel Amine Synthesis.
For someone as supposedly gifted as Walt to be unaware of how to perform reductive amination in a controlled environment (he didn't need to worry about it with Gus, but he did elsewhere) was conflict for the sake of conflict in the plot.
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Thanks for the short lesson.. very helpful