Is Ethcathinone/Ethylpropion legal in the UK?

[BigFishLittleFish]

Is Ethcathinone/Ethylpropion legal in the UK??

(RS)-2-ethylamino-1-phenyl-propan-1-one is not listed in the cathinone amendment and i am pretty sure that the structure of it is not covered by the part relating to substituted cathinones.

Please only answer this if you know for sure. Answers like 'All cathinones' got banned in the UK are neither helpful or correct.

Thanks in advance

 

[sekio]

"Any compound (not being bupropion or a substance for the time being specified in paragraph 2.2) structurally derived from 2-amino-1-phenyl-1-propanone by modification in any of the following ways, that is to say,

(i) by substitution in the phenyl ring to any extent with alkyl, alkoxy, alkylenedioxy, haloalkyl or halide substituents, whether or not further substituted in the phenyl ring by one or more other univalent substituents;

(ii) by substitution at the 3-position with an alkyl substituent;

(iii) by substitution at the nitrogen atom with alkyl or dialkyl groups, or by inclusion of the nitrogen atom in a cyclic structure."

So yeah, all cathinones are banned. Ethcathinone included.

 

[BigFishLittleFish]

Not all Cathinones are banned, only a specific 28 and ones covered by the substitutions you listed are.

I am trying to find out if Ethcathinone is substituted by one of those methods.

It is not an analogue law and does not cover every Cathinone even though they did try to cover them all.

 

[sekio]

2-amino-1-phenyl-1-propanone is cathinone, and the descriptions include substitutions pretty much everywhere there could be while retaining activity (and without requiring very wonky nuclear chemistry).

Ethcathinone is N-ethyl cathinone, which is covered by clause iii. (N-alkyl)

A large portion of pharmacologically active cathinones are banned in the UK, enough to say that "all" cathinones are... Sorry.