Identification and analytical characteristics of synthetic cannabinoids with an indazole-3-carboxamide structure bearing a N-1-methoxycarbonylalkyl group

Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry

Volumn 407, Issue 21, 2015, Pages 6301-6315

  Shevyrin, Vadim ^a   Melkozerov, Vladimir ^b   Nevero, Alexander ^c   Eltsov, Oleg ^a   Shafran, Yuri ^a,d   Morzherin, Yuri ^a   Lebedev, Albert T ^e  

^a URAL FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^b Main Agency of the Ministry of the Interior of the Russian Federation Sverdlovsk Region Branch   (Russian Federation)

^c State Committee of Forensic Expertises of Republic of Belarus   (Belarus)

^d TOSLab Ltd   (Russian Federation)

^e MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Chromatography; High resolution mass spectrometry; Indazole 3 carboxamides; New psychoactive substances; NMR; Synthetic cannabinoids

Indexed keywords

CHROMATOGRAPHY; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HEALTH RISKS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; IONIZATION; IONIZATION OF GASES; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SPECTROMETRY;

CARBOXAMIDES; COLLISION INDUCED DISSOCIATION; HIGH RESOLUTION MASS SPECTROMETRY; HIGH-RESOLUTION TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRIES; MASS SPECTRAL FRAGMENTATION; NEW PSYCHOACTIVE SUBSTANCES; SYNTHETIC CANNABINOIDS; ULTRA-HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHIES;

NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY;

CANNABINOID; CARBOXYLIC ACID; INDAZOLE DERIVATIVE;

ALKYLATION; CHEMISTRY; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE;

ALKYLATION; CANNABINOIDS; CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; INDAZOLES; PROTON MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 84943198498     PISSN: 16182642     EISSN: 16182650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00216-015-8612-7     Document Type: Article

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