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NurdRage, a relatively popular YouTuber, also replicated the Epipencil experiment on his channel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoQajOum6wA

The reason I'm bringing him up is that he synthesised Daraprim (pyrimethamine) from domestically-available materials over a period of ~2 years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddCuWX4vtOA&list=PLU79801KtV...

There's an NMR spectrum at about 12:08 in the last video in the playlist, which shows that he doesn't quite have medical-grade Daraprim, and that he'd need a lot of purification to get there.




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