Chemistry:6-(2-Aminopropyl)indole

Short description: Chemical compound

6-(2-Aminopropyl)indole

Clinical data
Routes of administration	Oral
Legal status
Legal status	DE: Uncontrolled Uncontrolled (but covered under the Federal Analogue Act in the United States and Australia and likely under similar bills in other countries)
Identifiers
IUPAC name 1-(1H-Indol-6-yl)propan-2-amine
CAS Number	22196-72-1
PubChem CID	30999
ChemSpider	28759
UNII	M7C77J017A
Chemical and physical data
Formula	C11H14N2
Molar mass	174.247 g·mol−1
3D model (JSmol)	Interactive image
SMILES C1=C2C(=CC=C1CC(C)N([H])[H])C=C[N]2[H]
InChI InChI=1S/C11H14N2/c1-8(12)6-9-2-3-10-4-5-13-11(10)7-9/h2-5,7-8,13H,6,12H2,1H3 Y Key:QCFIFKAOUKPFPU-UHFFFAOYSA-N Y

6-(2-Aminopropyl)indole (6-API, 6-IT) is an indole derivative which was first identified being sold on the designer drug market by a laboratory in the Czechia in July 2016.

Alexander Shulgin says in his book TiHKAL "From the normal 3-position to the 2, the 4, the 5, the 6 or the 7-positions. All five alpha-methyltryptamine isomers are known, but only one is known to be active in man as a CNS active material. This is the 5-isomer, 5-(2-aminopropyl)indole or 5-IT"[1].

Studies in dogs have also shown the drug to increase hemoglobin levels in the bloodstream.

Legality

• 6-API is a positional isomer of αMT, and as such may be covered by the analogue act in the USA (depending on the nature of its psychoactive effect).
• 6-API / 6-IT is illegal in the UK, as it was banned as a temporary class drug in June 2013, along with 9 other related compounds. On March 5, 2014, the UK Home Office announced that 6-API would be made a class B drug on 10 June 2014 alongside every other benzofuran entactogen and many structurally related drugs.
• 6-API is covered by the Australian analogue act as an analogue of MDA "by the replacement of up to 2 carbocyclic or heterocyclic ring structures with different carbocyclic or heterocyclic ring structures"
• 6-API is uncontrolled in Germany, as indole rings are not included as rings under the 2-phenethylamine derived section of the NPsG.