There is an interesting property about these new "non-stimulant" medications being sold for ADHD these days. And that property (which does apply to one of them for absolute certainty and the other being still in the preliminary stages) pertains to being a precursor of two of the most stimulating and euphoric stimulant drugs well known and well loved.
The first one I am referring to is the medication-Cylert a.k.a. Pemoline. Which is the perfect precursor for 4-methylaminorex. And the second one I am referring to is the new medication:"Strattera(Atomoxetine Hydrochloride)". It's empirical formula is C
17H
21NO°HCl with a molecular weight of 291.82. Now if you were to add three atoms of Oxygen to this you get cocaine hydrochloride.
Cocaine hydrochloride's empirical formula is C
17H
21NO
4°HCl with a molecular weight of 303.4.
The left one is Atomoxetine°HCl.
Now I did a search here for adding Oxygen atoms to a substances Empirical Formula and so far am chasing the wild goose so-to-speak. Same goes for other resources available on the Internet. So I have only waited until now to of post this Topic here at Serious Chemistry in hopes that one of you guys with a greater competency of matters of this nature could possibly help shed some light on this for me.
I do know that new steroid THG that has the Sportsworld up in arms about was given an addition of five Oxygen atoms to its Empirical Formula so as to make it undetectable to the drug tests' library of banned and known substances. So this kind of goes along the lines of that in that this Atomoxetine needs additional atoms of Oxygen as well only instead of five it needs three.
And I have yet to of found the exact means the chemist who created THG used to give those additions so I could get me some kind of relative idea on the methodology.
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