N&PD Moderators: Skorpio | someguyontheinternet
the first one may well be dissociative stim! PCP+(retro)Methylphenidate
(....e. the 'therapeutic' window between tripping and eating someone's lungs is small)
In his defense, he thought she was a sock.
cool molecule
but a troubling genre
combine 2 major neurotransmitter models of schizophrenia
(as I was saying probably as you were posting this)
what could go wrong?????
(yes, PCP and diphenidine, inter alia, do this and surprise they make you crazy,
i.e. the 'therapeutic' window between tripping and eating someone's lungs is small)
Imagine taking all structure motifs that give synthetic certain synthetic opioids their potency and merging them all in to one. I took the structure of Anilidopiperidines like Carfentanil and Bentley compounds like Etorphine and did the hypothetical merger of structures to make a ultra-potent mu agonist! Stop you're mad, ha ha ha! If you replace the propanamide group of fentanyl with a acrylamide group it doubles the potency, if you add a fluorine atom at the ortho position of the benzene ring it doubles the potency of fentanyl. Research on Bentley compounds denotes that pentyl, butyl, and isopentyl on the 7 carbon on the cyclohexane ring are the most potent substitutes 4500, 5200, and 9200X the potency of morphine respectively. Adding a isopentyl instead of Etorphine's butyl group produces a compound almost twice the potency. Targeting substitutes that increase binding affinity and you get this!
The extension of the two-carbon chain of mescaline by alpha-methylation to the three carbon chain of TMA approximately doubled the potency of the compound. And it was felt to be a completely logical possibility that, by extending it one more carbon atom, to the four carbon chain of alpha-ethyl-mescaline, it might double again. And following that logical progression, the doubling of potency with each additional carbon atom, the factor would be 2 to the 7th power by the alpha-octyl (or 256x that of mescaline, or a milligram as active dose) and with a side chain of a 70-carbon alkyl group (alpha-heptacontylmescaline) it would take just a single molecule to be intoxicating. This was rich fantasy stuff. As an active compound, just where would it go in the brain? With an 80-carbon side-chain, would one-thousandth of a single molecule be enough for a person? Or might a single molecule intoxicate a thousand people? And how long a chain on the alpha-position might be sufficient that, by merely writing down the structure on a piece of paper, you would get high? Maybe just conceiving the structure in your mind would do it. That is, after all, the way of homeopathy.
Opsin doesn't even require a strictly IUPAC name to do its magic. For most molecules, it accepts a wide variety of butchered, though still basically logical, monikers.
And Friman1987, please consider using http://opsin.ch.cam.ac.uk in the future, as the molecular sketches you're posting now are far too small and faint to be easily understood. Just a friendly suggestion (aka subtle command, lol).
As for the PiHKAL quote, I actually did get high once about 10 years ago after drawing this molecular structure
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on a piece of paper with a Sharpie, never to be repeated. I'm sure other factors which I was not aware of were at play, though. Still, it was an all around awesome time and is actually one of the best memories of my life thus far.