polymath
Bluelight Crew
There is a huge number of different kinds of modifications you can do to that structure and the ones you mention are not much more interesting than others.What if you were to add a (1-phenylpiperidine) or just a (phenyl) to Dizocilpines chemical structure ? Or place another molecule on the top of it. Would that be possibly or not ? And would it be more psychoactive ? Just wondering.
In other sciences, there is a principle called Occam's razor which states that you should principally try to make things as simple as possible but not any simpler. Therefore the first thing to try would be to see if NMDA activity remains even after removing the other aromatic ring

or after converting it to cyclohexane

Then you could try to test the naphthalene and pyridine versions of that molecule (whichever aromatic ring you replace with those).


There are also alternatives in where you put the nitrogen of that pyridine ring. This type of modifications look like what a medicinal chemist would first attempt to find out the structure activity relationships. Or they could try to add halogen, methyl or methoxy substituents on the aromatic rings.
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