Tags: Chemical Compound, Chemical Substance.
Methoxyketamine or 2-MeO-2-deschloroketamine is a designer drug of the arylcyclohexylamine class first reported in 1963. It is an analog of ketamine in which the chlorine atom has been replaced with a methoxy group. Its synthesis by rearrangement of an amino ketone has been reported. As an arylcyclohexylamine methoxyketamine most likely functions as an NMDA receptor antagonist. It produces sedative hallucinogenic and (at high doses) anesthetic effects.[citation needed]
