Identification and quantification of synthetic cannabinoids in 'spice-like' herbal mixtures: A snapshot of the German situation in the autumn of 2012

Drug Testing and Analysis

Volumn 6, Issue 1-2, 2014, Pages 59-71

  Langer, Nico ^a   Lindigkeit, Rainer ^a   Schiebel, Hans Martin ^a   Ernst, Ludger ^a   Beuerle, Till ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Mass spectrometry; NMR; Spice; Synthetic cannabinoids

Indexed keywords

COLUMN CHROMATOGRAPHY; ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; INDIUM COMPOUNDS; IONIZATION OF GASES; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY;

'SPICE'; 1D NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCES; 2D NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCES; AZEPANES; DESIGNER DRUGS; ELECTRON IONIZATION MASS SPECTROMETRY; HERBAL MIXTURES; RECENT TRENDS; SYNTHETIC CANNABINOID; SYNTHETIC COMPOUNDS;

MASS SPECTROMETRY;

AM 1220; AM 1220 AZEPANE; AM 2201; AM 2201 PME; AM 2232; CANNABINOID; CANNABINOID DERIVATIVE; DESIGNER DRUG; JWH 122 PENTENYL; NATURAL PRODUCTS AND THEIR SYNTHETIC DERIVATIVES; STS 135; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UR 144; XLR 11;

ARTICLE; AUTUMN; CANNABIS SMOKING; CARBON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; COLUMN CHROMATOGRAPHY; ELECTROSPRAY; GERMANY; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

MASS SPECTROMETRY; NMR; SPICE; SYNTHETIC CANNABINOIDS;

CANNABINOIDS; DESIGNER DRUGS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

EID: 84892466076     PISSN: 19427603     EISSN: 19427611     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dta.1499     Document Type: Article

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