Alexander Shulgin: Thoughts from Chemistry Community

[Nothing000]

I was wondering how you guys feel about Alexander Shulgin and the work he had done? Furthermore, how does the chemistry comunity as a whole feel about his work?

 

[Nothing000]

Do you guys know who Alexander Shulgin is?

 

[mrjeffy321]

I had never heard of hime before today,
But according to Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Shulgin" , he is,

generally credited with the popularizing of ecstasy in the late 1970s and early 1980s, especially for psychopharmaceutical use. He and his wife Ann Shulgin authored the books PiHKAL and TiHKAL. Shulgin discovered many other noteworthy phenethylamines including the 2C* family of which 2C-T-2, 2C-T-7, 2C-I, and 2C-B are most well known. Additionally, Shulgin performed seminal work into the descriptive synthesis of compounds based on the organic compound tryptamine.

It seems that he synthesized many types of drugs and experiments with them (in the scientific sense, not the drug user sense) to determine their effects on the human body.
Other than that, I don't know what else he has done since.

 

[solidspin]

all -

Alexander Shulgin (Sasha, to his colleagues) is somewhat infamous for his very excellent work in psychotropics and psychoactive drugs. He is nevertheless a very well-respected organic synthetic chemist.

 

[gravenewworld]

The guy is a genious, but nuts in the head. I believe he literally injects himself with experimental compounds he makes, even before they go into rats and mice testing.

 

[JoshHolloway]

The guy is a genious, but nuts in the head. I believe he literally injects himself with experimental compounds he makes, even before they go into rats and mice testing.

That guy must really like his work!