What is 2-Phenylethylamine Hydrochloride CAS 156-28-5

[FredDurst]

Has anyone worked with this?

Someone is telling me it is strong ephedrine and will reduce to D-Meth the same way as ephedrine?

Can't find no info on it

 

[Osmosis Vanderwaal]

We all wish that were true but neither is. 2-pea, also known as b-phenylethylamine is a naturally occurring catacholamine neurotransmitter found in your brain. It is a powerful drug but it only survives about 30 seconds before it is broken down by MAO-B. If you ingest it, it doesn't even reach your brain because there is a lot of monoamine oxidase in your gut. People have tried taking so much that they deplete the mao, and it can be done with several grams of b-pea.
This is the scaffold that so many drugs are made from, a phenol with a carbon chain.. meth, amphetamine, all of the hallucinagens in PhIKaL ( which is an acronym for phenylethylamines I have known and loved), cathionones, antidepressants. Mountains of drugs are substituted phenylethylamines. Structurally IT IS just a couple molecules different from amphetamine . The molecules are hard ones to do anything with. There's something on the phenyl ring, a hydroxy? That I have yet to see removed with destroying the molecule. There's a fentanyl analog you can make with it. I have found nothing else, but it's the holy grail to ameteur chemists and is referenced in several papers around 1915-1920 but I couldn't find it and 100's before me couldn't either.
Alpha-phenylethylamine, now that can be done something with

 

[Osmosis Vanderwaal]

Needless to say, I've thought about it a lot. I recall reading things that suggested elemental zinc and blowing gaseous b-pea over incredibly hot zinc could do it. It's a named reaction but I never saw any evidence of it working on a phenylethylamine specifically

 

[FredDurst]

Thank you for the information Mr Buchner

 

[Osmosis Vanderwaal]

There is a route, b-pea ->phenyacetic acid -->phenylacetone (p-2-p) then in that way there is a path. As I rexamine this idea, a year later, I wonder again why you couldn't just halogenated it The do a substition reaction for a methyl moity people acted like that wouldn't work but I've seen it work in cathionones...

I wrote this yesterday and forgot to hit send. I am Going to re-examine this is. It sure would make it easy since they sell it at GNC and 10 0ther places