Chemical signature of ecstasy volatiles by comprehensive two-dimensional gas chromatography

Forensic Science International

Volumn 209, Issue 1-3, 2011, Pages 11-20

  Mitrevski, Blagoj ^a   Veleska, Biljana ^b   Engel, Erwan ^a,c   Wynne, Paul ^d   Song, Shin Miin ^e   Marriott, Philip J ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Ministry of Internal Affairs   (Macedonia)

^c UR370 QuaPA   (France)

^d SGE Analytical Science Pty Ltd   (Australia)

^e INSTITUTE OF MICROELECTRONICS   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Chemometric; Comprehensive two dimensional GC; Ecstasy; Impurity profiling; MDMA; TOFMS

Indexed keywords

1,3 BENZODIOXOLE DERIVATIVE; 3,4 METHYLENEDIOXYACETOPHENONE; 3,4 METHYLENEDIOXYMETHAMPHETAMINE; 3,4 METHYLENEDIOXYPROPANE; MACROGOL; PHENYL POLYSILPHENYLENE SILOXANE; REAGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG IMPURITY; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SAMPLING; SOLID PHASE MICROEXTRACTION; TABLET; TEMPERATURE; TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; TWO DIMENSIONAL GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY;

EID: 79957586966     PISSN: 03790738     EISSN: 18726283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2010.11.008     Document Type: Article

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