Question Can you produce cocaine from benzocaine?

[happydayz3]

Hello,

We were reading the forums here and all the questions and answers and we got the following idea: can one produce cocaine from benzocaine?

 

[G.Patton]

Hello, no

 

[Zan444]

No

 

[T0lek511]

No

 

[Osmosis Vanderwaal]

Benzocaine and coccinellids are not structurally related. The suffix "caine" is used to denote anasthetic properties
Benzocaines technical name is Ethyl 4-aminobenzoate
Cocaine is Methyl (1R,2R,3S,5S)-3-(benzoyloxy)-8-methyl-8-azabicyclo[3.2.1]octane-2-carboxylate