Comprehensive analytical strategies based on high-resolution time-of-flight mass spectrometry to identify new psychoactive substances

TrAC - Trends in Analytical Chemistry

Volumn 57, Issue , 2014, Pages 107-117

  Ibáñez, María ^a   Sancho, Juan V ^a   Bijlsma, Lubertus ^a   Van Nuijs, Alexander L N ^b   Covaci, Adrian ^b   Hernández, Félix ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT JAUME I   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Biased non target screening; High resolution mass spectrometry; Legal high; New psychoactive substance; Psychoactive substance; Quadrupole time of flight mass spectrometry; Screening; Target screening; Time of flight mass spectrometry; Unbiased non target screening

Indexed keywords

PELLETIZING; SCREENING;

HIGH RESOLUTION MASS SPECTROMETRY; LEGAL HIGH; NEW PSYCHOACTIVE SUBSTANCE; NON-TARGET SCREENINGS; PSYCHOACTIVE SUBSTANCE; QUADRUPOLE TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; TARGET SCREENING; TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY;

MASS SPECTROMETRY;

BUTYLONE; CANNABINOID; CATHINONE; DESIGNER DRUG; METHYLONE; PHENETHYLAMINE; PIPERAZINE; PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT; TRYPTAMINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

DRUG DETERMINATION; DRUG IDENTIFICATION; DRUG SCREENING; DRUG TARGETING; DRUG TRAFFIC; FRAGMENTATION REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; ULTRA PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY;

EID: 84899863299     PISSN: 01659936     EISSN: 18793142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trac.2014.02.009     Document Type: Review

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