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PIHKAL: A Chemical Love Story
Cover of PIHKAL, 1st ed.
Author
Alexander and Ann Shulgin
Country
United States
Subject
Pharmacology, Autobiography, Psychoactive drugs
Publisher
Transform Press
Publication date
1991
Media type
Paperback
ISBN
0-9630096-0-5
OCLC
269100404
Followed by
TiHKAL
PiHKAL: A Chemical Love Story is a book by Dr. Alexander Shulgin and Ann Shulgin, published in 1991. The subject of the work is psychoactive phenethylamine chemical derivatives, notably those that act as psychedelics and/or empathogen-entactogens. The main title, PiHKAL, is an acronym that stands for "Phenethylamines I Have Known and Loved."
The book is arranged into two parts, the first part being a fictionalized autobiography of the couple and the second part describing 179
different psychedelic compounds (most of which Shulgin discovered himself), including detailed synthesis instructions, bioassays, dosages, and other commentary.
The second part was made freely available by Shulgin on Erowid while the first part is available only in the printed text. While the reactions described are beyond the ability of people with a basic chemistry education, some tend to emphasize techniques that do not require difficult-to-obtain chemicals. Notable among these are the use of mercury-aluminum amalgam (an unusual but easy to obtain reagent) as a reducing agent and detailed suggestions on legal plant sources of important drug precursors such as safrole.
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to PIHKAL: A Chemical Love Story, TIHKAL is an acronym that stands for "Tryptamines I Have Known and Loved". TIHKAL, much like its predecessor PIHKAL, is...
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properties similar to the drugs mescaline, isoproscaline, and escaline. In PiHKAL, Alexander Shulgin reports that a dose of 30–60 mg produces effects lasting...
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In 1991 and 1997, he and his wife Ann Shulgin compiled the books PiHKAL and TiHKAL (standing for Phenethylamines and Tryptamines I Have Known And Loved)...
author and the wife of chemist Alexander Shulgin, with whom she wrote PiHKAL and TiHKAL. Laura Ann Gotlieb was born in Wellington, New Zealand, to parents...
ethylenedioxy ring. EDMA was first synthesized by Alexander Shulgin. In his book PiHKAL, the dosage is listed as 150–250 mg, and the duration listed as 3–5 hours...
Alexander Shulgin and described in his book, PiHKAL: A Chemical Love Story. MBDB's dosage, according to PiHKAL, is 180–210 mg; the proper dosage relative...
Methallylescaline was first synthesized by Alexander Shulgin. In his book PiHKAL, the dosage range is listed as 40–65 mg and the duration is listed as 12–16...
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