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4-Methylthioamphetamine
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4-Methylthioamphetamine (4-MTA) is a designer drug of the substituted amphetamine class developed in the 1990s by a team led by David E. Nichols, an American pharmacologist and medical chemist, at Purdue University. It acts as a non-neurotoxic highly selective serotonin releasing agent (SSRA) in animals.[2][3][4] 4-MTA is the methylthio derivative of amphetamine.
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Formula | C10H15NS |
Molar mass | 181.30 g·mol−1 |
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