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| Other names | PeMPEA; 2,3,4,5,6-Pentamethoxyphenethylamine; 2,3,4,5,6-PeMPEA |
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| Formula | C13H21NO5 |
| Molar mass | 271.313 g·mol−1 |
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Pentamethoxyphenethylamine (PeMPEA), also known as 2,3,4,5,6-pentamethoxyphenethylamine (2,3,4,5,6-PeMPEA), is a drug of the phenethylamine family related to the psychedelic drug mescaline (3,4,5-trimethoxyphenethylamine). [1] [2]
It has been found to produce behavioral effects in animals, with about 8-fold higher potency than mescaline in the conditioned avoidance response test. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] The pharmacokinetics of the drug in rodents have been studied. [6] The effects of PeMPEA in humans have not been reported and are unknown. [1] [2]
It was first described in the scientific literature by 1955. [1] [7] PeMPEA was included as an entry in Alexander Shulgin's 2011 book The Shulgin Index, Volume One: Psychedelic Phenethylamines and Related Compounds . [1]
Table 3.2.—Relative Hallucinogenic Potencies of Some Phenylethylamines [...]
Previous investigators (a), employing a modified Bovet-Gatti profile, found that 2,3,4,5,6-pentamethoxyphenethylamine (XIII) is behaviorally active in animal models with a potency about eight times that of mescaline. With the relating equation, XIII is predicted to have a potency of ~4.5 mescaline units.