Alexander Shulgin

Alexander Theodore Shulgin (1925–2014), known as Sasha Shulgin, was an American medicinal chemist and pharmacologist known for the synthesis and self-experimental study of psychoactive phenethylamines and tryptamines. Working largely from a home laboratory near Lafayette, California, he and his collaborators characterized the human activity of a large number of novel compounds, among them 2C-B and much of the 2C series. He is also widely associated with the introduction of MDMA to psychotherapeutic practice in the 1970s. [citation needed]

With his wife Ann Shulgin he wrote two books, PiHKAL (1991) and TiHKAL (1997), each combining an autobiographical narrative with a detailed second-half catalog of chemistry and reported effects. He held a Drug Enforcement Administration Schedule I analytical license for much of his career; a 1994 inspection of his laboratory ended with his relinquishing it.

This article is a stub. The wiki's Shulgin's Corner component carries verbatim passages from Shulgin's published writing.