Ethylone

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Ethylone
Systematic (IUPAC) name
(RS)-1-(1,3-benzodioxol-5-yl)-2-(ethylamino)propan-1-one
Clinical data
Pregnancy cat. N (US)
Legal status Unscheduled
Routes Oral, nasal, IV
Identifiers
ATC code ?
ChemSpider 21106271 N
Chemical data
Formula C12H15NO3 
Mol. mass 221.2524 g/mol
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Ethylone, also known as 3,4-methylenedioxy-N-ethylcathinone (MDEC, bk-MDEA), is an entactogen, stimulant, and psychedelic of the phenethylamine, amphetamine, and cathinone chemical classes. It is the β-keto analogue of MDEA ("Eve"). Ethylone has only a short history of human use and is reported to be less potent than its relative methylone. Very little data exists about the pharmacological properties, metabolism, and toxicity of ethylone.

Pharmokinetics

Analysis of human and rat urine for the metabolites of bk-amphetamines suggested that ethylone was degraded in the following metabolic steps:[1]

  1. N-demethylation to the primary amine.
  2. Reduction of the keto moiety to the respective alcohol.
  3. Oxidation of the tolyl moiety to the corresponding alcohols and carboxylic acid.

See also

References

  1. Meyer, Markus R; Jens Wilhelm, Frank T. Peters, Hans H. Maurer (2010). "Beta-keto amphetamines: studies on the metabolism of the designer drug mephedrone and toxicological detection of mephedrone, butylone, and methylone in urine using gas chromatography–mass spectrometry". ANALYTICAL AND BIOANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY 397 (3): 1225–1233. doi:10.1007/s00216-010-3636-5. PMID 20333362. Retrieved 19 September 2012. 

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