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FORENSIC SCIENCE INTERNATIONAL
Volume 237, Issue -, Pages 100-111Publisher
ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2014.01.018
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Emerging drugs; UHPLC-PDA/UV-MS; Cathinones; Synthetic cannabinoids/cannabimimetics; Phenethylamines; 2C-compounds
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The use of psychoactive designer drugs has increased rapidly due to their varying and sometimes ambiguous legal status and their ready access via the Internet and at local headshops. A quick screening method for samples containing these substances, using ultra-high performance liquid chromatography with photodiode array UV and mass spectrometric detection (UHPLC-PDA/UV-MS), is presented. The method enables the screening of a variety of samples containing emerging/reemerging drugs, including beta-keto phenethylamines (cathinone derivatives), synthetic cannabinoids/cannabimimetics, and phenethylamine derivatives. The use of dual detectors not only provides molecular weight information but also differentiates the drugs by their categories and in some cases even their subcategories. Moreover, ring positional isomers of cathinone and phenethylamine derivatives can be easily differentiated by their retention times and UV spectra. Published by Elsevier Ireland Ltd.
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