The encouraging results from the pharmacodynamic investigations of ephedrine, particularly those of Chen,'have stimulated the interest of chemists in this compound as well as in its homologs and analogs. 2 Since Smitha isolated nor-d-$-ephedrine from ephedra species and in view of the fact that (3, 4-dihydroxyphenol)-ethanolamine has in many respects a physiological activity not unlike that of (3-4-dihydroxypheny1)-ethanolmethylamine, or ...