Amphetamine and Related Drugs
Amphetamine and Related Drugs
Amphetamine and Related Drugs
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Definitive De nitive Identification<br />
Identi cation of<br />
<strong>Amphetamine</strong>s<br />
GC–MS GC MS is the preferred method for the identification<br />
identi cation<br />
of amphetamines. The discussion below centres on<br />
the analysis of amphetamine itself, although the same<br />
principles can also be applied to other members of<br />
this class of drug. However, there are a number of<br />
problems associated with the gas chromatographic<br />
analysis of amphetamine. Being highly polar in<br />
nature, this compound is liable to poor<br />
chromatographic behaviour <strong>and</strong> tailing if the<br />
analytical instrument is not scrupulously clean<br />
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