Posted by yxibow on January 19, 2007, at 21:39:08
In reply to Re: Is Wellbutrin an amphetamine?, posted by linkadge on January 18, 2007, at 15:34:58
> I think it may be an amphetamine derivitive. The weight loss drug Tenuate (diethylpropion) is related to bupropion, and I think it is an amphetamine derivitive.
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> Not sure exactly.
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> LinkadgeYes -- it was derived from Tenuate. Tenuate is also known as diethycathinone, a sympathimometic, which is the N,N-diethyl analog of cathinone and dimethylcathinone. Cathinone, otherwise known as Khat, is a phenethylamine.
Phenethylamines include Category I (Worldwide and otherwise) illicit substances, including Khat, which is legal in a few middle eastern countries from whence the herbaceous plant came, and also include amphetamines, pseudoephedrine, ephedrine, and the neurotransmitters dopamine, epinephrine, and norepinephrine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenethylamine
Curiously enough, Wellbutrin appears on that chart, but it is not itself an amphetamine as far as I can tell, as it is otherwise described
(±)-1-(3-chlorophenyl)-2-[(1,1-dimethylethyl)amino]-
1-propanonehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Bupropion.png
You can compare the structures of Buproprion and Methcathinone on Wikipedia, but they are not quite the same.
Nonetheless to those who have been on it, it is rather stimulating (too stimulating for my OCD in general.)
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