Comment · Tue, September 1, 2020 · ND Owner
Is Phenylpiracetam by NootropicsDepot a racemic mixture or only the R-isomer?
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vengeancefit · 5 points
I checked the product label on ND's website and I am unsure what to make of it. The label states: Phenylpiracetam (R,S)-2-(2-oxo-4-phenylpyrollidin-1-yl)acetamide. Does the bolded R mean it's the R-isomer variant of Phenylpiracetam?
Thanks in retrospect.
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vengeancefit · -6 points
Not to be rude MYASD, but your opinion doesn't mean anything to me because you own NootropicsDepot. You have an incentive to convince me otherwise.
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb · ND Owner
LOL, there's nothing to convince. It's straight up facts. Racemic means a 50/50 mixture of both the R and S isomers. That's indisputable.
What are you even disputing, anyway? That racemic phenylpiracetam contains 50% R-phenylpiracetam? Or are you just arguing there are no human studies on phenylpiracetam? Because those are two totally different conversations.
And if my opinion doesn't mean anything, why are you posting on my subreddit, for a company that I own, on a product that I likely have done more testing on than anyone else alive today? I can literally go walk into my lab right now, pull retained samples of phenylpiracetam going back 7 years, from countless different suppliers, and run it through our polarmeter to get their specific rotation. That tells you the optical rotation of the molecule, which shows the isomer content. Find me one other person in the world that can do that. They don't exist. Nobody has the retained sample library we do. Nobody has the lab equipment, methods developed, and reference library we do for nootropics. Nobody. So if you don't want to listen to me, who in the hell are you going to listen to?