In his book PiHKAL (Phenethylamines I Have Known and Loved) and other publications, Alexander Shulgin lists 5-TOM's dose as 30 to 50Â mg orally and its duration as 6 to 10Â hours (but up to 12â16 hours).[1][3][2] Its onset is about 30Â minutes and its time to peak is a little over 3Â hours.[2] Whereas 5-TOM has an effective dose of around 40Â mg, DOM has a fully effective dose of about 5Â mg, and so there is around an 8-fold loss of potency with the drug.[1][3][4][5] In addition, it has a shorter duration than DOM, with DOM having a listed duration of 14 to 20Â hours.[1]
The chemical synthesis of 5-TOM has been described.[1][2] The phenethylamineanalogue, 2C-5-TOM (5-thio-2C-D), has been synthesized, but was not tested and its properties are unknown.[1][2]Bis-TOM, the 2,5-dimethylthio analogue of DOM, was synthesized and tested, but was inactive at doses of up to 160Â mg orally or approximately 50Â times the minimum effective dose of DOM.[1][3][5][2]TOMSO is the sulfoxide of 5-TOM, and produced few effects on its own at doses of up to 150Â mg orally.[1][3][2]
^ abcdNichols DE (1994). "Medicinal Chemistry and Structure-Activity Relationships". In Cho AK, Segal DS (eds.). Amphetamine and Its Analogs: Psychopharmacology, Toxicology, and Abuse. Academic Press. pp. 3â41. ISBN 978-0-12-173375-9. Biological activity is low in compounds in which the oxygen atom of either the 2- or the 5-methoxy group has been replaced with a sulfur, illustrating the difficulty in developing bioisosteres of the 2,5-dimethoxy-substituted aromatic nucleus. However, if relative importance were assigned to the two methoxy groups, the 2-methoxy group would appear to be more, critical for optimal activity (Jacob et al., 1977). For example, referring to Table l, when the 2-methoxy group of DOEt is replaced with a methylthio group, in vivo activity is reduced by more than one order of magnitude (Jacob and Shulgin, 1983; Shulgin and Shulgin, 1991). However, the replacement of the 5-methoxy oxygen with a sulfur reduces activity only 4- to 6-fold. Similarly, when the 2-methoxy group of DOM is replaced with a methylthio group, activity drops by a factor of 10â20, whereas similar replacement of the 5-methoxy only reduces activity 5- to 10-fold (Jacob et al., 1977; Shulgin and Shulgin, 1991).
^ abMarcher-Rørsted E, Halberstadt AL, Klein AK, Chatha M, Jademyr S, Jensen AA, Kristensen JL (May 2020). "Investigation of the 2,5-Dimethoxy Motif in Phenethylamine Serotonin 2A Receptor Agonists". ACS Chem Neurosci. 11 (9): 1238â1244. doi:10.1021/acschemneuro.0c00129. PMID 32212672. Shulgin observed that replacement of either the 2-position (10, Figure 2) or the 5- position (11, Figure 2) oxygen in 9 with a sulfur atom reduces its hallucinogenic potency by approximately 15- or 10-fold, respectively.13 Replacing both oxygen atoms with sulfur (12, Figure 2) completely abolished activity.