I've been trying to understand the chemical structure of various tryptamines. A lot of the notation is explained in the TiHKAL entry on DBT: http://www.erowid.org/library/books_online/tihkal/tihkal03.shtml What I don't understand is the M N thing. I understand about NMT being mono-methyl-tryptamine or just simply methyltryptamine, but what I don't understand is MET and NET. In one part of TiHKAL Shulgin refers to a compound MET, and there is an entry on NET. Are these both the same compound? Is M only replaced by N when conflicts might occure (ie. MMT being confused with methylmethyltryptamine AKA dimethyltryptamine [DMT]).
nomenclature. met = mono-ethyltryptamine. it's just another way of naming tryptamines, omitting the N designation of the various R-groups attached to the nitrogen moeity. N-ethyl-tryptamine just signifies that the methyl group is attached directly to the amine moeity
So the N is just placement? Like in n,n-dmt? And if somebody refers to MET or MIPT should I assume they are talking about n-met or n-mipt?
