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  • Title: Detection and characterization of emerging psychoactive substances by ion mobility spectrometry.
    Author: Armenta S, Garrigues S, de la Guardia M, Brassier J, Alcalà M, Blanco M, Perez-Alfonso C, Galipienso N.
    Journal: Drug Test Anal; 2015 Apr; 7(4):280-9. PubMed ID: 24935207.
    Abstract:
    Rapid detection and identification of novel psychoactive substances (NPS) continues to present significant analytical challenges to forensic and analytical chemists. Ion mobility spectrometry (IMS) has been traditionally considered as the analytical technique of choice to detect illicit drugs in security points in airports, borderlines and customs. Databases of the reduced mobility (K0 ) values of illicit drugs are available in the scientific literature and they should be completed with data of emerging designer drugs. In this paper, we have evaluated the effect of different measurement conditions and determined the K0 values of an important number of NPS including different families; such as phenethylamines, cathinones, synthetic cannabinoids and tryptamines among others to be incorporated to the existing data to provide a rapid detection and identification of this emerging threat.
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