At first I refrained from attributing your brash posting style to your clearly aggressive demeaner.
If you think this is brash and aggressive, you should try debating your theories in ADD and see what sort of response you get
BTW my criticisms of your chemistry were unfounded, you confused me by saying hexane instead of piperazine. I understand what you mean now - I've edited my post above, apologies for that.
I have been taking both these chemicals for the last couple of weeks or so now and so far neither of my feet have fallen off and the early signs parkinsons has yet to manifest.
That doesn't mean they're safe. Remember the cadmium in Urb597 -
http://www.bluelight.ru/vb/threads/348625-Urb597/
Man, I'm just trying to offer you standard harm reduction advice for testing out unknown compounds! It's your life, crack on as you see fit.
You stated that amine functionality on the MEOP molecule could not serve to help evade detection by enzymes looking to break down various transmitters.
No, I didn't. I said that you had no evidence or reasoning to support your idea that it
could help to evade detection by enzymes. I don't know either way. If you can see why this particular structure helps it evade MAO, then make a case for it?
The fact that this amine was situated at the para position of a saturated ring system attached to the amide of MEOP apparently meant nothing when it came to MEOP managing to give the MAO's the slip since harmaline also has a "crazy ring system". I didn't know the structure of harmaline off the top of my head so I took your word for it. I do know the structure of serotonin well though, and as irony would have it, I made a point of checking out the structure of harmaline about 5 mins before logging on to read your riot act. Now i'm sorry, but if the overwhelming similarity bewteen harmaline and serotonin doesn't jump out and smack you in the face then I think its you that need to go dig out the old GCSE revision guides and not me.
You misunderstood my point... you introduced the idea of a "crazy" ring system that stops it being a MAO inhibitor. You can't reason from structure to function just be looking at the molecule. Naively, just looking at structures without knowledge of their effects one could propose that the conformationally restricted ring of harmine/harmaline might help the molecule "evade" MAO, and you would be dead wrong. If there's some published SAR that shows that the piperazine ring does this, then great, you have some evidence for your claim.
Maybe harmine
does bind to the same place as 5HT, I don't know. But its clear that being close in structure to serotonin isn't necessary or sufficient for drugs to be MAO inhibitors, given the wide variety of structures. Did you take a look at moclobemide or any of the others?