New impurity profiles of recent Australian imported 'ice': Methamphetamine impurity profiling and the identification of (pseudo)ephedrine and Leuckart specific marker compounds

Forensic Science International

Volumn 169, Issue 2-3, 2007, Pages 173-180

  Qi, Ying ^a,b   Evans, Ian ^b   McCluskey, Adam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b Australian Federal Police   (Australia)

Author keywords

'Ice'; Ephedrine route; Impurity profiling; Leuckart reaction; Methamphetamine

Indexed keywords

1 BENZYL 3 METHYLNAPHTHALENE; 1,2 DIMETHYL 3 PHENYL AZIRIDINE; 1,3 DIMETHYL 2 PHENYLNAPHTHALENE; AMINE; AZIRIDINE DERIVATIVE; DECALIN; METHAMPHETAMINE; METHYLAMINE; N BENZOYLAMPHETAMINE; N FORMYLMETHAMPHETAMINE; N,N DI (BETA PHENYLISOPROPYL)AMINE; N,N DI (BETA PHENYLISOPROPYL)FORMAAMINE; N,N DI (BETA PHENYLISOPROPYL)METHYLAMINE; PSEUDOEPHEDRINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; POLICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 34249674477     PISSN: 03790738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2006.08.016     Document Type: Article

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