Would this have stimulant effects? It probably would have dissociative effects. Furthermore, if the secondary amine was a tertiary one, it would have the mu pharmacophore as well. Normorphine is a weak opioid itself and I'm guessing it's because if the hydrogen is involved in an H bond that would disrupt the ionic bond on the nitrogen which is crucial to opioid activity. Obviously the tertiary amine of this molecule would be lacking the parahydroxy group which would increase opioid activity a lot (although a metabolic byproduct could have a parahydroxy phenol group).
As far as I know, I think one of the main roles the alpha methyl group plays in amphetamine is blocking metabolism by AAADC which normally breaks down phenethylamine (I read in some paper that pea was a potent euphoriant but due to the very short half life of 30 seconds the effects are negligible). An alpha-benzyl group could block metabolism but obviously might cause steric hindrance at the receptor. However this group would give the molecule it's dissociative effects.
Here's the tertiary amine version and some derivatives and what activities I think they will have. This is purely theoretical and will probably have no activity at all but oh well it's fun. This is also assuming that an alpha benzyl group instead of an alpha methyl group retains amphetamine-like activity. I don't know very much at all about dissociative SAR at all so please correct me/make suggestions.
This is actually lefetamine. It's an opioid, and seems to lose stimulant activity completely, guessing because of 2 methyl groups on N. Dimethylamphetamine seems to lose a lot of activity, and what is retained is when one or both of the methyl groups are cleaved off by the liver. Apparently benzphetamine is rather active as a stimulant, and has a tertiary amine. Other substitutions which lead to compounds like selegine seem to have different pharmacology altogether, with selegine being an irreversible MAO-A inhibitor.
parahydroxylefetamine. It should increase opioid activity a lot if I'm correct. Will however significantly decrease stimulant activity. Not sure about how NMDA antagonism is affected. My next topic of research shall be that.
Secondary amine now, which should increase stimulant activity a lot, but reduce opioid activity significantly as well. The methoxy group could increase SERT affinity possibly?
I don't expect this to have mu affinity at all, however could this be both an NMDA antagonist as well as a 5HT releasing agent?
The 3,4-methylenedioxy substitution here is going to wreck opioid activity, so my attempt to possibly bring it back was making the nitrogen tertiary as well as adding a phenethyl group to it (n-phenethylmorphine is x14 more potent than morphine, and I don't think this is due to just increased lipophilicity). Could this retain dissociative activity? Probably not...
I'm not sure if a fluoro group would suffice instead of a hydroxy, but this could possibly increase SERT affinity as well, while possibly maintaining opioid and dissociative effects.
Hydrogenating the other ring should increase opioid activity but I'm guessing it might not retain dissociative activity. Expecting very little stimulant effects from this.
Will add more when I think of them. People correct me if I'm terribly wrong in my predictions on these molecules. In practical terms one effect of the 3 will probably overpower the other 2 such that when one administers enough of the compound to reach desired effects of one aspect, he will be overdosing from the other, be it say opioid induced respiratory depression or seizures.