During the time period of this Review (in February 2009), the US National Academy of
Sciences published a report entitled “Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States: A …

The challenges associated with the identification of new NPS have become more apparent
with the increasing number of new drugs in the market and the need to identify the specific …

A desktop NMR spectrometer was used to qualitatively analyze samples in drug‐related
cases in order to enhance the accuracy of the results and identify new drugs. Twelve known …

Abstract N‐(2‐Methoxybenzyl)‐2, 5‐dimethoxyphenethylamines (NBOMes) are synthetic
phenethylamine derivatives emerging on the global drug market and reported to be …

Abstract N‐(2‐substituted benzyl)‐2, 5‐dimethoxyphenethylamines often cause severe
poisonings which has led to their legal prohibition in many countries. At the same time, their …

Originally published in 1982 by Pearson/Prentice-Hall, the Forensic Science Handbook,
Third Edition has been fully updated and revised to include the latest developments in …

Emergence of new psychoactive substances, hallucinogenic phenethylamines in particular,
in illicit market is a serious threat to human health in global scale. We have detected and …

The first measurements of the infrared absorptions of molecules occurred in the 1880s and
the early spectroscopists performing these analyses recognized the potential of using this …

The synthesis of the designer drug 4-methylthioamphetamine (4-MTA) has been carried out
using the well-known Leuckart reaction in four versions. The treatment of 4 …

Gas chromatography with infrared detection (GC‐IRD) provides direct confirmatory data for
the differentiation between the six regioisomeric aromatic ring substituted …