5-TOET
5-TOET, also known as 2-methoxy-4-ethyl-5-methylthioamphetamine or as 5-thio-DOET, is a psychedelic drug of the phenethylamine and amphetamine families related to the DOx psychedelic DOET. It is the analogue of DOET in which the methoxy group at the 5 position has been replaced with a methylthio group. The drug is one of two possible TOET positional isomers, the other being 2-TOET.
In his book PiHKAL and other publications, Alexander Shulgin lists 5-TOET's dose as 12 to 25mg orally and its duration as 8 to 24hours. Its onset is about 30minutes and its time to peak is about 4hours. The drug is around 5-fold less potent than DOET, which has a listed dose range of 2 to 6mg orally.
The effects of 5-TOET have been reported to include closed-eye imagery and fantasy, open-eye visuals such as brightness around objects and visual movement, feelings of joy, beauty, love, and serenity, erotic enhancement, restlessness, lightheadedness, pupil dilation, sleep disturbances, and next-day afterglow as well as lethargy. One user described it as "superb", "exquisite", and potentially "extraordinary". It has much less physical discomfort than 5-TOM. There also appears to be significant interindividual variability in intensity of 5-TOET, with two of eight people being roughly twice as sensitive as the others. In addition, an unintentional overdose in one person, despite a similar dose taken as others, was described as intense, exhausting, and too long-lived.
The chemical synthesis of 5-TOET has been described. The phenethylamine analogue, 2C-5-TOET, has been synthesized, but was not tested and its properties are unknown.
5-TOET was first described in the scientific literature by Alexander Shulgin and Peyton Jacob III in 1983. Subsequently, it was described in greater detail by Shulgin in PiHKAL in 1991.