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DART-MS in-source collision induced dissociation and high mass accuracy for new psychoactive substance determinations

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FORENSIC SCIENCE INTERNATIONAL
卷 244, 期 -, 页码 42-49

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ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2014.07.028

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DART-MS; Forensic; Bath salts; Designer drugs; Mass spectrometry; Collision induced dissociation

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  1. University at Albany, State University of New York, USA
  2. National Institute of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice Award [2013-DN-BX-K041]

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The influx of new psychoactive substances is a problem that is challenging the analytical capabilities of enforcement agencies. Cathinone designer drugs are less likely to be included in routine drug screens and typical drug formulations are commonly mixtures with continually shifting components. Ambient ionization mass spectrometry employs relatively mild conditions to desorb and ionize solid samples, imparting much less energy than that associated with conventional mass spectrometry methods. Direct analysis in real time mass spectrometry (DART-MS) is an ambient ionization method that was employed to rapidly screen cathinones, alone and in mixtures, readily enabling differentiation of the active drug(s) from various cutting agents. Accurate mass determinations provided preliminary identification of the various components of drug mixtures. The data generated in forensic mass spectrometry can be used for both elemental composition formulations and isotope abundance calculations for determination of unknown psychoactive substances, and we demonstrate how this data could be applied to the presence of new drugs as the active components shift in response to regulations. Isotope abundance calculations were used to develop a candidate pool of possible molecular formulas associated with cathinones as a specific class of designer drugs. Together, the combination of a time-of-flight (TOF) mass analyzer along with in-source collision-induced dissociation (CID) spectra were used to drastically narrow the pool of candidates to a single molecular formula. The [ M + H](+) and product ion peaks provided data for presumptive analysis of various substituted synthetic cathinones in a manner that is complementary to conventional GC-MS analysis of new psychoactive substances. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.

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