Phencyclidine

= Phencyclidine =

Also known as PCP it is a street drug that was developed initially as an anesthetic. The drug is a hallucinogen or dissociative drug that is extremely potent. The chemical structure of PCP is an arylcyclohexylamine, meaning it comes from a chemical class of pharmaceutical, designer, and experimental drugs. PCP is an arylcyclohexylamine derivative, and, in pharmacology, it is a member of the family of dissociative anesthetics. PCP works primarily as an NMDA receptor antagonist, which blocks the activity of the NMDA receptor and, like most antiglutamatergic hallucinogens, is significantly more dangerous than other categories of hallucinogens.


 * ~ Formula || C17H25N ||
 * ~ Mol. mass || 243.387 g/mol ||


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