Fragmentation pathways of drugs of abuse and their metabolites based on QTOF MS/MS and MS E accurate-mass spectra

Journal of Mass Spectrometry

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 865-875

  Bijlsma, Lubertus ^a   Sancho, Juan V ^a   Hernández, Félix ^a   Niessen, Wilfried M A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

^b Hyphen MassSpec   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

accurate mass; fragmentation pathways; illicit drugs of abuse; liquid chromatography; metabolites; time of flight mass spectrometry

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE MASS; ANALYTICAL METHOD; CANNABINOIDS; COMPLEX MATRICES; DEUTERATED ANALOGUE; DRUGS OF ABUSE; FRAGMENT IONS; FRAGMENT SELECTIONS; FRAGMENTATION BEHAVIOR; FRAGMENTATION PATHWAYS; ILLICIT DRUG; KETAMINE; MASS MEASUREMENTS; MASS SPECTRA; QUADRUPOLE TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; RELATED COMPOUNDS; RELATED SUBSTANCES; TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; TRACE-LEVEL DETERMINATION;

BIOMOLECULES; DEUTERIUM; DRUG PRODUCTS; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; LIQUIDS; MASS SPECTROMETERS; METABOLISM; METABOLITES; TRACE ANALYSIS;

MASS SPECTROMETRY;

AMPHETAMINE; CANNABINOID; COCAINE; DIAMORPHINE; EPHEDRINE; ILLICIT DRUG; KETAMINE; METHCATHINONE; MORPHINE; OPIATE; PSYCHOSTIMULANT AGENT; TETRAHYDROCANNABINOLIC ACID;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ABUSE; DRUG STRUCTURE; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; FRAGMENTATION REACTION; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; METABOLITE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRUPOLE MASS SPECTROMETRY; QUADRUPOLE TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY;

AMPHETAMINE; CANNABINOIDS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; COCAINE; IONS; KETAMINE; OPIATE ALKALOIDS; STREET DRUGS; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

EID: 80052818083     PISSN: 10765174     EISSN: 10969888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jms.1963     Document Type: Article

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