The black market for new psychoactive substances has been constantly evolving and the substances that appear on this market cause a considerable number of issues, in extreme cases leading to human deaths. While monitoring the drug black market, we detected a sample of a dissociative anesthetic methoxphenidine, the salt of which contained an unusual anion in the form of bromo- and chloro-zincate...
Deschloroketamine has been synthesized, the absolute configuration of enantiomers elucidated and the in vitro cytotoxicity of the enantiomers determined using nine different cell lines.