User:AlexWasFirst/Chemistry of MDMA

Development Article of the Chemistry of MDMA

MDMA (Systematic name: 3,4-methylenedioxy-N-methylamphetamine) is a synthetic drug of the phenethylamine family which consttutes the active ingreadiant of Ecstasy

History
MDMA was first patented on Christmas eve 1914 by the German pharmaceutical company Merck, two years after its first synthesis. At the time, Merck was systematically synthesizing and patenting a wide variety of chemically related compounds which could be potentially used in human health, and MDMA remained largely forgotten for many years.

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 * Shulgin - http://www.cognitiveliberty.org/shulgin/adsarchive/safrole.htm
 * Shulgin - http://www.cognitiveliberty.org/shulgin/adsarchive/makingmdma.htm