title: The stimulants and hallucinogens under consideration: a brief overview of their chemistry and pharmacology.
abstract: The substances under review are a heterogeneous set of compounds from a pharmacological point of view, though many have a common phenylethylamine structure. Variations in structure lead to marked changes in potency and characteristic action. The introductory material presented here is meant to provide a set of chemical and pharmacological highlights of the 28 substances under consideration. The most commonly used names or INN names, Chemical Abstract (CA) names and numbers, and elemental formulae are provided in the accompanying figures. This provides both some basic information on the substances and a starting point for the more detailed information that follows in the individual papers by contributors to the symposium.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000697:Central Nervous System Stimulants / Q000494:pharmacology*; D055598:Chemical Phenomena; D002621:Chemistry; D004285:Dogs; D006213:Hallucinogens / Q000494:pharmacology*; D006801:Humans; D008253:Macaca mulatta; D051381:Rats
chemical_list: D000697:Central Nervous System Stimulants; D006213:Hallucinogens