The background and chemistry of MDMA.

This article will present the factual material that up to 1972, MDMA was entered with the phenethylamine exists in the literature representing the results of laboraname. Since then, the heterocyclic term benzodioxole-5i tory studies and scientific experimentation with ethanamine has been the root name. The common abbremethylenedioxymethamphetamine or MDMA, the comviation MDMA is based on the consideration of the stmcmon name applied to an organic compound, a secondary ture as a substituted methamphetamine. Other terms that amine. As a free base it is a white, musty smelling oil with have been used to refer to this drug include MDM, Ec_, a searing taste, insoluble in water but soluble in most stasy, XTC, Adam, and EA-1475 (the last, by the Edgeorganic solvents. It forms salts with several acids, and wood Arsenal). The computer searching of Chemical these are white solids or oils that are readily water soluble Abstracts employs the following registry numbers: _' and bitter to the taste. It has an empirical formula S-MDMA (+) ................... 66142-89-0 Cl iHlsNO2, and its structural formula is given in Figure S-MDMA (+) HCI ............... 69558-32-3