You and I both know this is not true. DDQ is used in the production of many pharmaceuticals, and before they had DDQ commercially available, they used chloranil and other reagents that produce all sorts of “toxic byproducts.”
Source: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/cr040679f
Technically no one should be consuming any of these synthetic analogues unless they’re being produced in USFDA approved manufacturing laboratories.
But here we are so I bring you all this advice:
Know your substance.
Know your source.
and…
Know your chemist.
caron2006.pdf (1.7 MB)