2,5-Dimethoxy-4-bromophenethylamine
| 2C-B | |
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| Salts [] | |
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| 2,5-Dimethoxy-4-bromophenethylamine hydrochloride | |
| 2,5-Dimethoxy-4-bromophenethylamine hydrobromide | |
| Molecular structure via molpic based on CDK |
| Physical properties [] | |
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| Molecular mass | 260.13 g/mol [1] |
| Predicted LogP | 2.1 [1] |
| Structural Identifiers [] | |
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| Molecular formula | C10H14BrNO2 [1] |
| IUPAC name | 2-(4-bromo-2,5-dimethoxyphenyl)ethanamine [1] |
| SMILES | COC1=CC(=C(C=C1CCN)OC)Br [1] |
| InChI | InChI=1S/C10H14BrNO2/c1-13-9-6-8(11)10(14-2)5-7(9)3-4-12/h5-6H,3-4,12H2,1-2H3 [1] |
| InChIKey | YMHOBZXQZVXHBM-UHFFFAOYSA-N [1] |
| Pharmacokinetics[] | |
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| Elimination half-life | 1.2 – 2.5 hours[3][4] |
| Duration of action | Oral: 3 – 5 hours (range 2 – 8 hours)[5] |
| Dosing[] |
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| Insufflated [] | |
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| Light | ≤ 8.3 mg(21x - 36.2%) |
| Common | 8.3 - 10 mg(20x - 34.5%) |
| Strong | 10 - 13.8 mg(2x - 3.4%) |
| Heavy | 13.8 - 17.3 mg(9x - 15.5%) |
| Extreme | 17.3 mg +(6x - 10.3%) |
| Oral [] | |
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| Light | ≤ 17 mg(4x - 28.6%) |
| Common | 17 - 21 mg(3x - 21.4%) |
| Strong | 21 - 25 mg(4x - 28.6%) |
| Heavy | 25 - 34.4 mg(1x - 7.1%) |
| Extreme | 34.4 mg +(2x - 14.3%) |
| Intrarectal [] | |
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| Light | ≤ 12.4 mg(6x - 50%) |
| Common | 12.4 - 13.5 mg |
| Strong | 13.5 - 20 mg(4x - 33.3%) |
| Heavy | 20 - 24 mg |
| Extreme | 24 mg +(2x - 16.7%) |
Statistically derived dosages via DBI-IGS We do not take any responsibility for medical complications or loss of life sustained by following these dosages blindly. |
2,5-Dimethoxy-4-bromophenethylamine (also known as 4-Bromo-2,5-Dimethoxyphenethylamine, 4-Bromo-2,5-dimethoxyphenethylamine, 2-(4-Bromo-2,5-dimethoxyphenyl)ethylamine, 2-(4-Bromo-2,5-dimethoxyphenyl)ethanamine, 4-Bromo-2,5-dimethoxyphenylethylamine, Benzeneethanamine, 4-bromo-2,5-dimethoxy-, Chebi:189669, 2C-B, Nexus or BDMPEA) is a psychedelic substance of the 2,5-dimethoxyphenethylamine class.
Chemistry
Salts []
2,5-Dimethoxy-4-bromophenethylamine is typically found in the form of its hydrochloride and hydrobromide salts.
Stereochemistry []
2,5-Dimethoxy-4-bromophenethylamine is a achiral mixture.
Reagents
There are currently 11 reagent-interactions on DrugsPRO
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Experience reports
Erowid
There are currently 26 experience reports involving 2,5-dimethoxy-4-bromophenethylamine on Erowid: []
- "Potentiation / I Decided to Play It Safe" by xd
- "2C-Bang" by Newt
- "A Walk in the Chelsea Physic Garden" by Huxley
- "Mission Control Kitchen" by Samanthe
- "To See What It Could Truly Be..." by DJ-DDP
- "Talk to Plod" by PippUK
- "The Arc of Pleasure, Archetypes & Flatness" by Samanthe
- "A Combination That Makes For Great Sleep" by mephisto
- "Mellowed with Age or Aged to Perfection?" by Gaz
- "Pleasant Mood Enhancement" by Jill Stingray
- "Algebraic Abstraction" by philomath
- "Cunt Odyssey: Search for Vaginal Datapoints" by Scribe
- "Bee and Fly Side by Side" by LucidStudies
- "Combined with Guided Meditation" by sface
- "A Little Of Everything" by Solid Snake
- "Personal Baseline" by Tooligan
- "The Drunken DJs" by feedmesauce
- "Intense Visuals" by Fuzz
- "A Week of 2C-B" by mm
- "A Very Fun but Controllable High" by g-licious
- "Simultaneously Intense and Peaceful" by homological
- "Deluxe Mindfuck With A Side Of Visuals" by Jassonn
- "A Day Out of Time" by Tumbleweed
- "No Longer Look at Life and Death the Same Way" by Respondent 55-B
- "Insane Visual Experience" by Rene Charles
- "Between Nothingness and Infinity" by Mahavishnu
- "My first time on ~50 mg 2C-B: a cautionary tale about weighing your drugs properly" by psilocindream (89 upvotes)
- "An Acid Trip that Only Satan Himself could Imagine || A Detailed Account of the Events that Transcended one Fateful Halloween 5 yrs ago. Resulting in the Admittance of my Best Friend into the ER, Him Stealing a Car, Developing Psychosis, and so so Much More Crazy Shit!!" by GrizzlyAdams123 (74 upvotes)
- "Mind shattering LSD experience" by therealgnut (70 upvotes)
- "I had a house fire on 400ug" by Mycofriendly (63 upvotes)
- "I Have Tried Every Single Drug and Steroid" by Hangeth_Thy_Dong (51 upvotes)
- "The Soup: 250ug LSD, 22mg 2C-B, Nitrous Oxide, Cannabis, and Nicotine." by postcooked_2 (49 upvotes)
- "Took 500ug LSD, 4g shrooms and 30mg 2c-b" by MayoFace11 (43 upvotes)
- "1p-LSD and Ketamine. Holed into the quantum consciousness." by JenaMu6 (42 upvotes)
- "650mg DPH - Night of the centipede" by ArtoisConnection (31 upvotes)
- "Tripreport: LSD+MDMA+2CB+KETAMINE+WEED" by boogerscrap (30 upvotes)
- "Psychedelia Turned Into Stimulant Psychosis (on a tab of DOC)." by 26LT (30 upvotes)
- "3 tabs 2C-B + kush - Theory of Everything" by BasketsGM (28 upvotes)
- "Bad mushroom trip. I was convinced I was about to die." by sadasfucc (28 upvotes)
- "My full drug career to this point. (Feel free to skim )" by Solid-Ambition-6635 (28 upvotes)
- "First solo trip with 2C-B" by Sardoudoune (27 upvotes)
- "2cb helped me conquer my fears" by clinicaldeath (27 upvotes)
- "Lsd, 2cb, ketamine weed Rave trip report" by bassjunkie69 (25 upvotes)
- "Last Tuesday I boofed ~38mg of 2C-B" by Gigaszef (25 upvotes)
- "2CB and LSD" by lovelysluglegs (25 upvotes)
- "Disrespect psychs and they'll show you" by Mimiriam (23 upvotes)
- "first time tripping on 2cb" by hadisemilan (22 upvotes)
- "LSD + 2CB" by toasted170 (22 upvotes)
- "My trippiest trip so far" by ayowhosdis (20 upvotes)
- "420mg MDMA and a low tolerance to weed sent me into a full 6 hours psychedelic playground experience." by trippykingfisher (19 upvotes)
- "Inverted colors, demonic sexual activity and hallucinating a worst-case scenario on nitrous during an amazing trip (2CB, Nitrous and weed)" by grillworst (19 upvotes)
- "The Sexual enlightenment of 20MG 5-HO-MET (NSFW)" by ketzk (18 upvotes)
- "My second experience with shrooms (~5g) or that time I became god" by natetheapple (18 upvotes)
- "My first 2CB trip" by BenStegel (17 upvotes)
- "Complete out of body experience + entity encounter - MDMA, 2CB, DMT, LSD, Ketamine and weed" by Kass-The-Dumb-Ass (16 upvotes)
- "Alcohol + Coke + 2cb + Ket. Started good, turned bad, turned AMAZING" by bluredk (15 upvotes)
- "Summoning the Elders. A high-dosage lockdown 2C-B experience" by SunderedValley (15 upvotes)
- "First 2C-B trip. INSANE" by TheMediator42069 (15 upvotes)
- "First shroom trip, reverted to my childhood self and found my emotional center again (long trip report) (x-Post with r/shrooms)" by funkymonkey0426 (14 upvotes)
- "16 mg of 2cb shot me into another dimension" by hunty__dunky (14 upvotes)
- "Going everywhere with 2C-B" by MvoorMals (14 upvotes)
- "30mg 2cb and 3g of ketamine" by ChocoBicky (14 upvotes)
- "Unplanned experience including breakthrough /w 2c-b" by seva98 (14 upvotes)
- "My trip lasted longer than expected" by tursaansydaan (13 upvotes)
- "2CB, K, Coke, MDMA, Alcohol. The time I shat myself, or at least believed I had, ending up in an ambulance [Long Story]" by Dorda (13 upvotes)
- "Trip Report 300ug LSD (legal so very clean and pure)" by Aggressive-Warthog-1 (13 upvotes)
- "Extremely Detailed | 2CB laced with Ketamine Trip Report" by frangb99 (12 upvotes)
- "Trip gone wrong: liberty caps in the rain" by BigTimePeanut (11 upvotes)
- "First trip on 2C-B" by boozymoozy (11 upvotes)
- "20mg 2c-b-fly(with tolerance), tripped for 14-15 hours" by rodentgaysex (11 upvotes)
- "Crazy Stalker Mom" by Wimptastical (11 upvotes)
- "5-MeO-MiPT is the most euphoric psychedelic (my experience and all you need to know)" by PsychedStrawberry (11 upvotes)
- "A very profound experience on 350ug of LSD (long trip report and my first written)" by sub-context-is-key (10 upvotes)
- "A trippy day with a fully dissociated ending (mdma, 2cb & ketamine)" by grillworst (10 upvotes)
- "First Time DMT" by Brokenmindchains (9 upvotes)
- "ego loss from MDMA, 2c-b, 4-HO-MET, ketamine" by butt_high_socks_uwu (9 upvotes)
- "Fully convinced that I (F22) had a heart attack last night on psilocybin" by autumngeez (9 upvotes)
- "2CB and Ketamine at a rave, silly mistake" by tidge2001 (8 upvotes)
- "LSD + 2CB first time mix" by MDOMMSOHRLMASD (7 upvotes)
- "First time 2cb (30mg orally), barely any effects, but an awesome day after all" by Hevige-Dirk (7 upvotes)
- "Unbeatable Sensations and Duration (9hr+) 675mg" by oscxrrrr (7 upvotes)
- "14h sous 2c-EF" by Global-Equivalent-14 (7 upvotes)
- "Crazy experience of group consciousness on 2cb and nos" by stardawgs (6 upvotes)
- "Snorted 50 mg of 2c-b. Waiting for result." by egigoka (6 upvotes)
- "What started as a small experiment has changed my life forever. My experience of CE5 & Psychedelics" by tr0n23 (6 upvotes)
- "4 grams of Psilocybe Cubensis and Salvia 10x alone in the woods for guidance and healing" by postcooked_2 (6 upvotes)
- "2CB and Cocaine on the side - A time travel Saturday" by Sikart (6 upvotes)
- "My first Sass roll with new friends at a rave" by Subject-Side8367 (6 upvotes)
- "crazy hallucinations with pure mdma, ectasy and weed" by Dastaghiri (6 upvotes)
- "First mushrooms trip" by SignificantName2143 (6 upvotes)
- "Down the Rabbit Hole at Down the Rabbit hole (xpost /r/drugs)" by DutchJip (5 upvotes)
- "A new place with nitrous" by BigTimePeanut (5 upvotes)
- "What started as my most disappointing experience turned out as probably one of the best i had to date." by vMiDNiTEv (5 upvotes)
- "Hilarious and satisfying 2C-B trip well worth the wait (30 mg)" by grillworst (5 upvotes)
- "My experience with LSD + 2cb. Was this normal? Report." by wolfiediamond (5 upvotes)
- "Horrible Body Load on 4-AcO-DMT" by repotoast (5 upvotes)
- "2C-E trip report" by Meatwad_420 (5 upvotes)
- "trip to infinity" by Alternative-Draft563 (5 upvotes)
- "80mgs 2cb+Ketamine+Weed" by Immediate_Royal9587 (5 upvotes)
- "The Great reset on 5-meo-dmt" by rkth22 (5 upvotes)
- "950ug acid trip" by Cyenesence (5 upvotes)
- "My first LSD trip was at the van gogh museum. Here is my trip report of the day" by cyrilio (4 upvotes)
- "Is this really happening?" by damonkex (4 upvotes)
- "A bad trip on 2C-B at a techno rave" by FeelsGoodMate (4 upvotes)
- "My first experience on LSD" by Zackster1267 (4 upvotes)
- "First time 4-HO-MET 30mg from Fear of Death to Indescribably Beautiful" by chip99 (3 upvotes)
- "One of the craziest lSD Trips ever." by KongenTripper (3 upvotes)
- "Changed my life" by swim_313 (3 upvotes)
- "Everything and Nothing...an Overwhelming 48mg Trip-venture" by oscxrrrr (3 upvotes)
- "There are 45 psychedelic and dissociative trip reports in the Drug Users Bible: Download a free copy from here. Whether psychedelics are used for recreation, you need to look after yourself. Stay safe." by DMTrott (3 upvotes)
- "300ug LSD + Cart: Going 4d" by SoErgoProxy (3 upvotes)
- "DXM/2cb/edibles combo" by Ht0wNsLaYeR420 (3 upvotes)
- "Weed is a full on psychedelic now (+ 4 tab and weed trip report 😁)" by MannerLower2254 (3 upvotes)
- "Was it actualy 2cb???" by New-Interview6994 (3 upvotes)
- "Into the Void of Blissful Ignorance (DMT- 2CB-KET)" by averagedrugabuser (3 upvotes)
- "2cb, 4-ho-met, and dmt. everything was perfect" by Grand-Measurement193 (3 upvotes)
- "Took a drug and ended up unintentionally tripping" by Alony2 (3 upvotes)
- "3 meo pcp and ptsd? Life changing" by wizardslashmagi (2 upvotes)
- "plugged/boofed 35mg of 4-aco-dmt // colorful bliss of ice cream. (x-Post /r/researchchemicals)" by shaddowlink (2 upvotes)
- "2C-B first time" by XzeZT (2 upvotes)
- "My First LSD Trip... Psychedelics in Portland Oregon" by trippinglydotnet (2 upvotes)
- "First time 2c-b (Not very interesting, I warned. :D )" by egigoka (2 upvotes)
- "INSANE TRIP AT A INSANE TIME (LSD+DMT+2CB+THC+NOS) FIRST TIME LSD!!!!" by psychogenical (2 upvotes)
- "My first trip! 8g High Hawaiin truffles :)" by SteoLasVegas (2 upvotes)
- "Extremely unsettling visuals off of MDMA with heavy past physcedelic use" by No_Trade1066 (2 upvotes)
- "first time trying ketamin. got stuck in the bathroom" by Appropriate_Yard7286 (2 upvotes)
- "RAVE with 2CB, Key of MDMA powder and half a pill of Ecstasy" by WaterplsSir (1 upvotes)
- "Best Combo Ever ! 2cb, Phenylethylamine HCL , Hordenine" by JediJ94 (1 upvotes)
- "Nexus flip - First time question" by Maisie_T (1 upvotes)
- "Intense penetrative energies internally" by No_Ordinary7577 (1 upvotes)
- "Unspeakable horrors and Entity encounters" by Background-Day-5661 (1 upvotes)
- "LSD ALONE-GOOD IDEA?" by joe345io (1 upvotes)
- "DPH and 4Pro Met" by Dangerous_Coast6174 (1 upvotes)
- "2C-B day trip" by [deleted] (0 upvotes)
- "VAPED DCK and DMT (+oral DCK and 2C-B)" by coolbreeze1990 (0 upvotes)
Legal status []
- Australia: 2,5-Dimethoxy-4-bromophenethylamine is a Schedule 9 substance.
- Brazil: 2,5-Dimethoxy-4-bromophenethylamine is a F2 substance.
- Canada: 2,5-Dimethoxy-4-bromophenethylamine is a Schedule III substance.
- Germany: 2,5-Dimethoxy-4-bromophenethylamine is a Anlage I substance.
- United Kingdom: 2,5-Dimethoxy-4-bromophenethylamine is a Class A substance.
- United States: 2,5-Dimethoxy-4-bromophenethylamine is a Schedule I under the "Controlled Substances Act (CSA)".
- United Nations: 2,5-Dimethoxy-4-bromophenethylamine is a Schedule II drug under the "Convention on Psychotropic Substances 1971".
See also []
External links []
- 2,5-Dimethoxy-4-bromophenethylamine (Wikipedia)
- 2,5-Dimethoxy-4-bromophenethylamine (Wikidata)
- 2,5-Dimethoxy-4-bromophenethylamine (DrugBank)
- 2,5-Dimethoxy-4-bromophenethylamine (PubChem)
- 2,5-Dimethoxy-4-bromophenethylamine (Probes & Drugs)
- 2,5-Dimethoxy-4-bromophenethylamine (Common Chemistry)
- 2,5-Dimethoxy-4-bromophenethylamine (KEGG)
- 2,5-Dimethoxy-4-bromophenethylamine (UNII)
- 2,5-Dimethoxy-4-bromophenethylamine (EPA DSSTox)
References []
National Center for Biotechnology Information. PubChem Compound Summary for CID 98527, 2,5-Dimethoxy-4-bromophenethylamine. Accessed June 7, 2026. https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/98527
U.S. Food and Drug Administration; National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences. 2,5-Dimethoxy-4-bromophenethylamine. UNII: V77772N32H. Global Substance Registration System. Accessed June 7, 2026. https://gsrs.ncats.nih.gov/ginas/app/beta/substances/V77772N32H
Papaseit E, Farré M, Pérez-Mañá C, Torrens M, Ventura M, Pujadas M, de la Torre R, González D. Acute Pharmacological Effects of 2C-B in Humans: An Observational Study. Frontiers in Pharmacology. 2018; 9
Thomann J, Rudin D, Kraus S, Arikci D, Holze F, Liechti ME, Luethi D. Liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry-based pharmacokinetic and metabolic analysis of 4-bromo-2,5-dimethoxyphenethylamine and its metabolites in human plasma. Drug Metabolism and Disposition. June 1, 2025; 53(6)
Inan F, Brunt TM, Contrucci RR, Hondebrink L, Franssen EJ. Novel Phenethylamines and Their Potential Interactions With Prescription Drugs: A Systematic Critical Review. Therapeutic Drug Monitoring. April 1, 2020; 42(2):271–281.