A green method for the determination of cocaine in illicit samples

Forensic Science International

Volumn 237, Issue , 2014, Pages 70-77

  Pérez Alfonso, Clara ^b   Galipienso, Nieves ^b   Garrigues, Salvador ^a   de la Guardia, Miguel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b Inspección de Farmacia   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cocaine; Green analytical method; Illicit samples; Near infrared; Partial least squares

Indexed keywords

COCAINE; NARCOTIC AGENT; STREET DRUG;

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GREEN CHEMISTRY; INFRARED RADIATION; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; PARTIAL LEAST SQUARES REGRESSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; DRUG CONTAMINATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

COCAINE; DRUG CONTAMINATION; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; NARCOTICS; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED; STREET DRUGS;

EID: 84895752374     PISSN: 03790738     EISSN: 18726283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2014.01.015     Document Type: Article

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