13C4-secobarbital as the internal standard for the quantitative determination of secobarbital - A critical evaluation

Journal of Forensic Sciences

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 659-664

  Chang, Wei Tun ^a   Lin, Dong Liang ^b   Low, I An ^a   Liu, Ray H ^c  

^a CENTRAL POLICE UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Min of Justice Investigation Bureau   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

13C4 secobarbital; 2H5 secobarbital; Barbiturates; Cross contribution; Forensic science; GC MS; Internal standard; Toxicology

Indexed keywords

AMOBARBITAL; BARBITURIC ACID DERIVATIVE; BUTALBITAL; CARBON 13; DEUTERIUM; HEXOBARBITAL; PENTOBARBITAL; PHENOBARBITAL; SECOBARBITAL;

ARTICLE; DRUG DETERMINATION; FORENSIC MEDICINE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; SOLID PHASE EXTRACTION; STANDARD;

EID: 0034124636     PISSN: 00221198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1520/jfs14743j     Document Type: Article

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