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Market => Product requests => Topic started by: narcocapitalist9 on May 05, 2013, 01:37 pm
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Bromantan is an adamantane based nootropic/stimulant developed by russian pharmacologists, and is somewhat popular in russia in the upper classes, and famous for being used by a russian skier in 1996. It's not a complex molecule, apart from the diamond-like adamantane base, I think some years ago I thought up a probable synthesis for it. It basically consists of an adamantane attached via an amine group to a benzene ring with a para- (opposite side to the amine) positioned bromine atom. I think the synthesis I dreamed up involved nitrating the adamantane, mixing it with benzaldehyde and then reducing the imine and finally slapping the bromine on, which is liable to go on the para- position of the benzene over any other site. Or something like that. Someone with more experience and knowledge with organic synthesis would be able to suggest a more precise specification of a likely synthesis.
here's the wikipedia page about bromantan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bromantane
Well, maybe not 'nootropic' I don't know. It's anxiolytic and stimulant, so it reduces anxiety as well as improving mental focus. I guess that probably inherently makes it nootropic because stimulants are only mildly improving of overall intellectual function mainly through boosting attention capacity, but tend to reduce one's ability to think as clearly because of the anxiety they often also cause. It says in the wikipedia entry that it is a potential drug for treating asthenia, which is a general mental malaise, foggy mind, poor attention, etc.
It's available in Russia, apparently, so if there is any Russian vendors maybe they could acquire some. I may even make a trip to source some at some point, as I am not *that* far from russia by land (just around the black sea and a little north), but my Russian skills are a bit weak currently. Or alternatively someday when I've got a lot more money I'll cook some up myself. I priced up the cost of hydroxy-adamantane and adamantane some years ago and it wasn't too bad, maybe 600 dollars for a 100g or so, so probably a final product cost of about 2-6 dollars a dose is likely doable.
Anyway, I would be absolutely ecstatic if someone were able to source it and list it. I would think that it would become a hot seller, because it has a lot of the properties of methamphetamine and modafinil but as well as its stimulant/anxiolytic effects and nootropic effects it is also an immune stimulant. The wikipedia page does not really do the drug justice, there is better information out there, but this is a drug that I think deserves more attention.
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here is more information about it:
http://home-psychiatrist-3.blogspot.com/2009/04/ladasten-bromantan.html
I just started reading through it, and it's such lovely badly translated russian, you can totally tell. I should see if there is any place supplying it, last time I looked it was impossible to find anywhere selling it. I don't think it's technically illegal in most countries unless you are a professional sports person.
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oh, look at that. it's available online finally! woo! So i guess nobody needs to stock it particularly. That site also has a bunch of other interesting ones, phenibut, phenylpiracetam, etc.
http://awakebrain.com/ladasten.html