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N,N-Dimethyltryptamine (DMT or N,N-DMT) is a substituted tryptamine that occurs in many plants and animals, including humans, and which is both a derivative and a structural analog of tryptamine. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] DMT is used as a psychedelic drug and prepared by various cultures for ritual purposes as an entheogen .
Tryptamine is an indolamine metabolite of the essential amino acid tryptophan. [9] [10] The chemical structure is defined by an indole—a fused benzene and pyrrole ring, and a 2-aminoethyl group at the second carbon (third aromatic atom, with the first one being the heterocyclic nitrogen). [9]
NMT is an alkaloid derived from L-tryptophan that has been found in the bark, shoots and leaves of several plant genera, including Virola, Acacia, Mimosa, and Desmanthus—often together with the related compounds N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT) and 5-methoxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine (5-MeO-DMT). [4]
[1] α,N-DMT is known to be a potent monoamine oxidase inhibitor and tryptamine or serotonin receptor antagonist. [2] [1] Close analogues of α,N-DMT, such as α-methyltryptamine (αMT), are known to act as monoamine releasing agents and serotonin receptor agonists. [3] α,N-DMT is the N-methylated analogue of αMT. [1]
Harmaline and harmine fluorescence under ultraviolet light.These three extractions indicate that the middle one has a higher concentration of the two compounds. As mentioned above, some harmala alkaloids can be used as a monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI) to facilitate the ingestion of dimethyltryptamine (DMT) and other tryptamines; while not generally used as a hallucinogen alone, there are ...
4-HO-TMT, or 4-OH-TMT, also known as 4-hydroxy-N,N,N-trimethyltryptammonium or as dephosphorylated aeruginascin, is a substituted tryptamine derivative and the active form of aeruginascin (4-PO-TMT), analogously to how psilocin (4-HO-DMT) is the active form of psilocybin (4-PO-DMT).
Bufotenin, also known as 5-hydroxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine (5-HO-DMT), is a substituted tryptamine and a derivative of dimethyltryptamine (DMT; N,N-dimethyltryptamine) and serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine; 5-HT). It is also closely related to psilocin (4-HO-DMT) and 5-MeO-DMT. The predicted log P of bufotenin ranges from 0.89 to 2.04.