Baeocystin

Baeocystin

Systematic (IUPAC) name
3-[2-(methylammonio)ethyl]-1H-indol-4-yl hydrogen phosphate
Clinical data
Pregnancy cat.	?
Legal status	Schedule III (CA) ? (UK)
Routes	Oral
Identifiers
CAS number	21420-58-6
ATC code	None
PubChem	CID 161359
ChemSpider	141741 Y
Chemical data
Formula	C11H15N2O4P
Mol. mass	270.222 g/mol
SMILES	eMolecules & PubChem
InChI InChI=1S/C11H15N2O4P/c1-12-6-5-8-7-13-9-3-2-4-10(11(8)9)17-18(14,15)16/h2-4,7,12-13H,5-6H2,1H3,(H2,14,15,16) Y Key:WTPBXXCVZZZXKR-UHFFFAOYSA-N Y
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Baeocystin is a mushroom alkaloid and analog of the psychedelic hallucinogenic drug psilocybin, a tryptamine derivative. It is found as a minor compound in most psychoactive mushrooms together with psilocybin, norbaeocystin, and psilocin. Little information exists with regard to human pharmacology, but in the book Magic Mushrooms Around the World, author Jochen Gartz reports being aware of a study in which "10 mg of baeocystin were found to be about as psychoactive as a similar amount of psilocybin."^{[citation needed]}

First isolated from the mushroom Psilocybe baeocystis,^[1] and later from P. semilanceata (Repke & Leslie 1977) and first synthesized by Troxler et al. (1959) Baeocystin is a demethylated derivative of psilocybin.

References

1. ^ Leung, A.Y. and A.G. Paul. "Baeocystin and Norbaeocystin: New Analogs of Psilocybin from Psilocybe baeocystis." Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences 57(10): 1667-1671 (1968).

• DB Repke, DT Leslie, G Guzman. "Baeocystin in Psilocybe, Conocybe and Panaeolus." Lloydia. 1977 Nov-Dec;40(6):566-78.

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