4DQSAR
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Sorry - the oxygen which has two lone-pairs. They can act as hydrogen-bond acceptors so MAY increase the melting point.
I just responded to you commenting that the 2-methoxy homologue was likely to be similar to etaqualone and was commenting on my single taste of that compound.
As I said, the hilariously wrong Wikipedia page on nitromethaqualone shows that same 2-methoxy which is, I suspect, what get the vendor the idea.
But in almost every case, anything bigger than that 2-methyl reduces sedative activity. Shetty patented the 2-trifluoromethyl homologue as an antispasmodic so I assume that was an attempt to separate the two activities.
As I said, they tested hundreds of related compounds so if the figured out that substituting the 2-position vastly increased activity and rational design would dictate testing a range of 2 substituents but for whatever reasons, they chose the 2-methyl.
I just responded to you commenting that the 2-methoxy homologue was likely to be similar to etaqualone and was commenting on my single taste of that compound.
As I said, the hilariously wrong Wikipedia page on nitromethaqualone shows that same 2-methoxy which is, I suspect, what get the vendor the idea.
But in almost every case, anything bigger than that 2-methyl reduces sedative activity. Shetty patented the 2-trifluoromethyl homologue as an antispasmodic so I assume that was an attempt to separate the two activities.
As I said, they tested hundreds of related compounds so if the figured out that substituting the 2-position vastly increased activity and rational design would dictate testing a range of 2 substituents but for whatever reasons, they chose the 2-methyl.

He was one of a few meth heads on there. and I guess if they're into meth they're probably going to be a bit more reckless and completely alien to the more measured and informed HR type of approach that members on the likes of BL or even Reddit tend to have.