The Changing of Things with a Chain and a Ring:
‘Phenethylamine Fantasies’
What occurred in these walls
in those halcyon days,
w’the Old Rascal’s tech-
niques in their prime?
With Beethoven blasting,
the years went on passing
the classical helping
the atoms keep time.
The beta-nitrostyrenes
reduced in his daydreams,
(the novelty growing with
white hairs on his head);
The Phenethylfantasies of
such nocturnal chemistries
progressing each night
as he lay in his bed.
Once he’d lost alpha’s methyl,
which’d made the chain ethyl,
these changes and a hundred or more!
At C4 a chlorine, a bromine or fluorine,
in a flash placed a thiol at four.
With this change a new series!
ALEPH-like but two Cs
These ideas become pages
in a tome called Pihkal.
Initial 2,5-substitutions?
Handled with a simple solution
The hillside Hierophantes
first methoxy ‘em all, as
he’d go sliding & gliding
with his gentle hands guiding
the delicate glass that
he’d employed for his task;
Each refluxing reaction
and condensing contraption
yielt his triple-neck gifts
borne of round-bottom flasks.
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