Amphetamines, Analogs, and Precursors

Amphetamine and its stimulant analogs, as well as synthetic precursors.

Documents:

• PIHKAL: A Chemical Love Story
  Phenethylamines I Have Known and Loved, Part 2

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Contacts and URLs:

• DanceSafe (homepage, more info)
  "Promoting health and safety within the nightclub community." Offers harm-reduction information on MDMA and other drugs, Ecstasy testing kits, etc.
  • DanceSafe Speed Page
    Basic information on amphetamines (related items...)
• Erowid (homepage, more info)
  "Documenting the Complex Relationship between Humans and Psychoactives"
  • Drug Testing Homepage
    Drug testing info for a wide variety of substances (related items...)
• Rhodium (homepage, more info)
  Drug chemistry and pharmacology
  • Evaluation of the potential for clandestine manufacture of MDA analogs and homologs
    by T. A. Dal Cason, Journal of Forensic Sciences, Vol. 35(3), 675-697 (1990). (related items...)
  • Propylbenzenes from propiophenones (related items...)
  • Still Going
    by POPeye. A review of "Built for Speed". (related items...)
• Spiritplants (homepage, more info)
  • Structural Tour of PIHKAL (related items...)
• Miscellaneous URLs
  • Images from the preprohibition era
    Before Prohibition: Images from the preprohibition era when many psychotropic substances were legally available in America and Europe (related items...)

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Children:

• ALEPH-2 (4-ethylthio-2,5-dimethoxyamphetamine)
• Amphetamine (a-methylphenethylamine)
• Benzphetamine (Benzfetamine; N-Benzyl-N,a-dimethylbenzeneethanamine)
  Didrex
• b-Asarone (cis-1-propenyl-2,4,5-trimethoxybenzol)
• Cathinone ((-)-a-Aminopropiophenone)
• Elemicin (5-allyl-1,2,3-trimethoxybenzene)
  Present in nutmeg
• Ephedrine
• Eugenol
• Fenfluramine
  "Pondimin"
• Isosafrole
• MDP2P (3,4-methylenedioxy-phenyl-2-propanone)
  Precursor to MDMA, MDA, and related chemicals.
• Methamphetamine (N-methylamphetamine)
• Methcathinone
• Methylamine (Monomethylamine)
  Important reagent in the synthesis of MDMA and Methamphetamine.
• Methylphenidate
  alpha-Phenyl-2-piperidineacetic acid methyl ester; "Ritalin[tm]"
• Myristicin (3-methoxy,4,5-methylendioxy-allylbenzene)
  Non-amine precursor of 3-methoxy-4,5-methylenedioxyamphetamine.
• P2P (phenyl-2-propanone)
  Common amphetamine precursor.
• Phenylalanine
  Amino acid and biosynthetic precursor
• Phenylpropanolamine (2-amino-1-phenyl-1-propanol)
• PMA (Paramethoxyamphetamine, 4-MA, 4-methoxyamphetamine)
  A strong stimulant, toxic, sometimes found in or represented as ecstasy
• Pseudoephedrine
• Safrole (3,4-methylene-dioxyallylbenzene)
  Non-amine precursor to 3,4-methylenedioxyamphetamine