metaescaline
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Metaescaline (ME), also known as 3-ethoxy-4,5-dimethoxyphenethylamine, is a psychedelic drug of the phenethylamine and scaline families related to mescaline. It is the analogue of mescaline in which the methoxy group at the 3 position has been replaced with an ethoxy group. The drug is also the positional isomer of escaline in which the methoxy group at the 3 (meta) position and the ethoxy group at the 4 position have been interchanged.
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- Mass
- 225.136493468
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- canonical SMILES
- COc1c(cc(cc1OCC)CCN)OC
- chemical formula
- C₁₂H₁₉NO₃
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Metaescaline (ME), also known as 3-ethoxy-4,5-dimethoxyphenethylamine, is a psychedelic drug of the phenethylamine and scaline families related to mescaline. It is the analogue of mescaline in which the methoxy group at the 3 position has been replaced with an ethoxy group. The drug is also the positional isomer of escaline in which the methoxy group at the 3 (meta) position and the ethoxy group at the 4 position have been interchanged.
==Use and effects== In his book PiHKAL (Phenethylamines I Have Known and Loved), Alexander Shulgin lists metaescaline's dose as 200 to 350mg orally and its duration as 8 to 12hours. Its onset was described as slow and ranged from 0.5 to 1.5hours. The drug's potency is similar to that of mescaline.