L-Norpseudoephedrine
-Norpseudoephedrine, or -norpseudoephedrine, is a psychostimulant drug of the amphetamine family. It is one of the four optical isomers of phenylpropanolamine, the other three being cathine, -norephedrine, and -norephedrine; as well as one of the two enantiomers of norpseudoephedrine. Similarly to cathine, -norpseudoephedrine acts as a releasing agent of norepinephrine and to a lesser extent of dopamine. Due to the 10-fold difference in its potency for inducing the release of the two neurotransmitters however, -norpseudoephedrine could be called a modestly selective or preferential norepinephrine releasing agent, similarly to related compounds like ephedrine and pseudoephedrine.
