Anton Köllisch

1888–1916 · German · Merck, Darmstadt

Synthesized MDMA at Merck in 1912 as an intermediate in a route to a haemostatic drug. Nobody tested it for psychoactivity and Köllisch died in the First World War without learning what he had made.

Compounds credited overall: one that mattered, and he never knew

On this site

• Entactogens
• MDMA C11H15NO2 first synthesis, 1912

  Made at Merck as a synthetic intermediate; never tested for psychoactivity.

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDMA