What's 'nrg-2'?

[isthisincognito]

Two online vendors today added products they've only titled as 'nrg-2'. Any idea what this could actually be?

Both vendors are selling it for around 40% less than nrg-1. I'm not really too keen on these ambiguous names, can anyone shed some light?

Edit: 4 Vendors spotted with it now :/

Two of them describe it as 'white crystalline'. One states it should not be confused with nrg-1 and is in no way similar, and the other states it's a crystallised version of nrg-1 :/

 

[cage rat]

What vendors are you talking about...

NRG2 is a protein, according to wikipedia. Just eat some meat or take some of those calcium pills (don't they have those)?

 

[seejay33]

A poster on another forum has suggested its a.k.a 5iai can't confirm need to email vendor

 

[isthisincognito]

NRG2 is a protein, according to wikipedia. Just eat some meat or take some of those calcium pills (don't they have those)?

NRG1 (Neuregulin 1) is also a protein. NRG-1 is Naphyrone.

I'll drop them a line, see what they say.

This was posted earlier today (Source)

Just seen a vendor advertising NRG-2 in stock & specifying it as

- epithio-17α-methyl-17β-ol-N-Benzyloxycarbonyl-d-proline -

Cant find much about this on google, any1 shed any light???

 

[MikeHawk]

I'm pretty sure this is 5-IAI. If so, GET IT. Looks very very promising as an MDMA replacer.

 

[ct-boi]

I'm pretty sure this is 5-IAI. If so, GET IT. Looks very very promising as an MDMA replacer.

I'm pritty certain it isn't. There's so much hype surrounding 5-IAI that if any vendor were to have it in stock they would name it exactly that and it would be gone in no time.

 

[Nexius]

Maybe the LD50 is very low on on 5-IAI kinda like how they won't stock O-Desmethyltramadol anymore because of it's addicition potential

 

[Link_S]

I doubt vendors know or care about the ld50 of 5-iai..

 

[MeDieViL]

This is probably another shitty toxic meph "replacement" stay away...

 

[Alcyone]

An unreliable source (UK beta-tester) informed me that NRG-2 is simply naphyrone. Apparently, the NRG-1 name was dropped due to negative publicity. I'm just relaying this information and I don't know if it checks out. It could make some sense though, as I suspect that vendors are trying to get rid of their stocks of naphyrone by changing the name and lowering the price.

The specified name, 2a,3a-epithio-17α-methyl-17β-ol-N-Benzyloxycarbonyl-d-proline, is almost certainly bogus, coined to help it pass smoothly through customs. The name makes no sense at all, as benzyloxycarbonyl-d-proline (BOC-proline) has only 13 carbons. It's a common precursor in peptide synthesis.

The first half of the name, 2a,3a-epithio-17α-methyl-17β-ol appears to be shamelessly borrowed from the semi-legal anabolic steroid 2a,3a-epithio-17a-methyl-5a-androstan-17b-ol, aka. methylepitiostanol/Hemaguno/Havoc etc. Coincidence or what?

Tread carefully, guys and girls. I wouldn't touch this thing with a five-foot pole.

 

[JahRed24x]

Why do all you guys always fuck with these research substances of mystery?? There are already plenty of "Good" drugs around the streets.. I honestly think most of these "Research Chemicals" are more dangerous / toxic then even the 'hard drugs' on the street like coke and heroin..

 

[isthisincognito]

There are already plenty of "Good" drugs around the streets..

I have a habbit of coming across things that are 90% persil

Alot of stuff just seems to be cut to shit.

There's so much hype surrounding 5-IAI that if any vendor were to have it in stock they would name it exactly that and it would be gone in no time.

I only know one vendor that sells that (or pretends to), and it's always 'out of stock'.

 

[g0to]

Why do all you guys always fuck with these research substances of mystery?? There are already plenty of "Good" drugs around the streets.. I honestly think most of these "Research Chemicals" are more dangerous / toxic then even the 'hard drugs' on the street like coke and heroin..

For some people it's easier to get them online than off the street and there's at least some standard of purity. That's usually been the case in the RC market, but as of late a ton of legal drugs being sold are unidentified or mislabelled compared to traditional phen/tryptamine RCs.

 

[I NUK3D U]

If the vendor is truly trying to disassociate it's product from 'NRG-1' due to bad publicity, I'm not sure 'NRG-2' is the best name with which to achieve this.

I heard on the grapevine that NRG-2 is just a much better synth'd version of NRG-1. The latter being rushed into development following the Meph ban. The process is now refined, and supposedly newer batches of NRG-1 (aka NRG-2???) really hit the spot.

 

[daydreamx]

A poster on another forum has suggested its a.k.a 5iai can't confirm need to email vendor

I spoke to a vendor yesterday asking exactly what is was. They said they had not been told by the manufacturer to avoid other manufacturers copying the product but when the product is more widely available he was sure the chemical would be named. They also confirmed it is NOT 5 iai, but they assured me they had tested it personally and was a perfect mephedrone replacement... well that makes me feel very comfortable.

As risky as all these chemicals, at least we knew what they are.

 

[Alcyone]

I heard on the grapevine that NRG-2 is just a much better synth'd version of NRG-1. The latter being rushed into development following the Meph ban. The process is now refined, and supposedly newer batches of NRG-1 (aka NRG-2???) really hit the spot.

Sure, and that's why it's cheaper too. I'm chuffed to see that the vendors are kindly supplying us with a purer product at a lower price, because they're genuinely concerned about our health and don't want us to ingest any potentially harmful impurities. 8)

Bollocks to that. NRG-1 is quickly becoming a familiar word in hospital emergency departments across Britain, and there is increasing concern about its probable carcinogenicity. RC users may be a bunch of reckless fools, but they don't want cancer. RC vendors aren't fools. I bet they've realised that now is the time to cut their losses and get rid of the shit while they can still move it.

A better synthesis or a more refined product is a step in the wrong direction if you ask me. Naphyrone is fucking toxic. I'm eagerly waiting for NRG-3, which should contain naphyrone with a purity of 0 %.

 

[I NUK3D U]

lolz

 

[isthisincognito]

Went down to a vendor earlier after work to swindle a free sample.

It's very very different in appearance.

It's very fine, very light, and very very sparkly. Mass wise half a gram of this is about the same as 6 or so grams of nrg-1. (eyeballed).

The sample i got came factory sealed, in a vacuum packed, resealable foil bag.

I've got a few half gram samples, so when i've got a break from work, i'll get a few people to sample it and report back (might give this a miss personally 8)).

I'll upload some pictures shortly (when i've triple checked my phones not geo-tagging these ).

 

[coombesy]

iv seen one vendor claiming nrg-2 is:
2α,3α) -epithio-17α-methyl-17β-ol-N-Benzyloxycarbonyl-d-proline

 

[Alcyone]

iv seen one vendor claiming nrg-2 is:
2α,3α) -epithio-17α-methyl-17β-ol-N-Benzyloxycarbonyl-d-proline

Ehh yes... as I've already pointed out above, this is an utterly meaningless name for a non-existent substance which would not be remotely recreational.

It's deliberate mislabelling of an exisiting RC, probably naphyrone. Mislabelling is a sketchy and potentially dangerous business, but it's not as if it's a new practice. The Chinese have been doing it for years with melanotan, growth hormone and other doping agents, labelling them as butenafine, amino acids, vitamins - anything that's not controlled. There was also a thread in ADD the other day where some bloke had received a sample labelled as 5-formyl-2,4 dimethyl-1h-pyrrole-3-carboxylic acid - it also turned out to be naphyrone. Here's the thread.

Suppliers routinely do this to get their goods through customs. Deliberate mislabelling of an RC for sale in a webshop is new to me, though. We can only speculate as to why the vendors do this. My guess is that they're stuck with a shitload of something that isn't catching on (naphyrone, anyone?) and they're hoping to get rid of the stock by slapping on a bogus name and letting it go at a bargain price. I bet they'll succeed too, as we're generally a bunch of idiots who will gladly throw our money at anything that sounds new and fancy.