Profiling of seized methamphetamine putatively synthesized by reductive amination of 1-phenyl-2-propanone

Forensic Toxicology

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 70-75

  Tsujikawa, Kenji ^a   Mikuma, Toshiyasu ^b   Kuwayama, Kenji ^a   Miyaguchi, Hajime ^a   Kanamori, Tatsuyuki ^a   Iwata, Yuko T ^a   Inoue, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF POLICE SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b Forensic Science Laboratory   (Japan)

Author keywords

Impurity profiling; Methamphetamine; Optical resolution; Reductive amination; Stable isotope ratio mass spectrometry

Indexed keywords

AMPHETAMINE; CARBON 13; METHAMPHETAMINE; NITROGEN 15;

AMINATION; ARTICLE; CHIRALITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERIVATIZATION; DRUG IMPURITY; ENANTIOMER; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MELTING POINT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYNTHESIS;

EID: 84858699372     PISSN: 18608965     EISSN: 18608973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11419-011-0119-0     Document Type: Article

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