TiHKAL · info

Cover of TiHKAL: The Continuation. Alexander & Ann Shulgin. Cover art by Pamela Engebretson

TiHKAL · info is a visual index and map of “TiHKAL: The Continuation,” by Alexander & Ann Shulgin. In TiHKAL the authors continue their exploration (begun in “PiHKAL: A Chemical Love Story”) of the chemistry and transformative power of psychedelic drugs, devoting this volume to tryptamines, β-carbolines, and LSD analogues.

TiHKAL (the book) contains detailed reports on 55 substances and perhaps a hundred more are touched on. Still other tryptamines not discussed in the book are known or are suspected to have psychedelic potential. TiHKAL · info is my attempt to map out the terrain.

Numbering of the tryptamine skeleton

All tryptamines on this website are drawn with the ring locants arranged counterclockwise starting at the (indole) nitrogen, drawn at left. This is the standard numbering for tryptamines, and the order used in TiHKAL

From TiHKAL

trypt-amine\'trip-ta-,mēn\ n. [tryptophan fr. tryptic, fr. trypsin, fr. Gk. tryein, to wear down (from its occurence in pancreatic juice as a proteolytic enzyme) + amine fr. NL ammonia] 1: A naturally occurring compound found in both the animal and plant kingdoms. It is an endogenous component of the human brain. 2: Any of a series of compounds containing the tryptamine skeleton, and modified by chemical constituents at appropriate positions in the molecule.
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TiHKAL · info Statistics

  Resources
35031 Names
33700 Links
14647 Substances
3160 References
756 Transcripts
  Xrefs
4607 Trachsel et al.
1658 PiHKAL & TiHKAL
1373 Shulgin Index