Indapyrophenidone is a synthetic drug of the
cathinone
Cathinone (; also known as β-ketoamphetamine) is a monoamine alkaloid found in the shrub ''Catha edulis'' (khat) and is chemically similar to ephedrine, cathine, methcathinone and other amphetamines. It is probably the main contributor to t ...
class that has been sold online as a
designer drug
A designer drug is a structural or functional analog of a controlled substance that has been designed to mimic the pharmacological effects of the original drug, while avoiding classification as illegal and/or detection in standard drug tests. ...
.
The substance is the indanyl-α-phenyl
analogue of the
stimulant
Stimulants (also known as central nervous system stimulants, or psychostimulants, or colloquially as uppers) are a class of drugs that increase alertness. They are used for various purposes, such as enhancing attention, motivation, cognition, ...
drug
α-PVP; however, it is also structurally related to diarylethylamines such as
fluorolintane
Fluorolintane (also known as 2-FPPP and 2-F-DPPy) is a dissociative anesthetic drug that has been sold online as a designer drug.
Fluorolintane and related diarylethylamines are antagonists of the NMDA receptor and have been studied ''in vitro' ...
and
UWA-001. Its mechanism of action is unknown.
See also
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3,4-Pr-PipVP
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5-BPDi
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Alpha-D2PV
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βk-Ephenidine
2-(Ethylamino)-1,2-diphenylethanone (also known as α-ethylamino-deoxybenzoin, ±-(Ethylamino)benzyl(phenyl)-ketone and βk-Ephenidine) is a chemical compound which was first invented in 1955, researched by ICI in 1969 as an antidepressant, and ...
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Diphenidine
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Ephenidine
Ephenidine (also known as NEDPA and EPE) is a Dissociative drug, dissociative anesthesia, anesthetic that has been sold online as a designer drug. It is illegal in some countries as a structural isomer of the banned opioid drug lefetamine, but ha ...
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Lefetamine
Lefetamine (Santenol) is a drug which is a stimulant and also an analgesic with effects comparable to codeine.
Discovery
The parent structure of lefetamine, 1,2-diphenylethylamine was first synthesized in the 1940s and showed weak analgesic ...
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Methoxphenidine
Methoxphenidine (methoxydiphenidine, 2-MeO-Diphenidine, MXP) is a dissociative of the diarylethylamine class that has been sold online as a designer drug. Methoxphenidine was first reported in a 1989 patent where it was tested as a treatment for ...
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Pyrovalerone
(Centroton, 4-Methyl-β-keto-prolintane, Thymergix, O-2371) is a central nervous system (CNS) stimulant that acts as a norepinephrine–dopamine reuptake inhibitor (NDRI). It was developed in the 1980s and had briefly been approved in Spain an ...
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TH-PVP
References
Designer drugs
Drugs with unknown mechanisms of action
Stimulants
1,2-Diarylethylamines
Pyrrolidinophenones
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