Citation

Sarazin C, Delaunay N, Costanza C, Eudes V, Gareil P. Talanta 2013; 103: 301-305.

Affiliation

Laboratoire Central de la Préfecture de Police, 39 bis, rue de Dantzig, 75015 Paris, France; Chimie ParisTech, Laboratory of Physicochemistry of Electrolytes, Colloids and Analytical Sciences (PECSA), 75005 Paris, France; UPMC Univ Paris 06, 75005 Paris, France; CNRS, UMR 7195, 75005 Paris, France.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2013, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.talanta.2012.10.048

PMID

23200391

Abstract

In order to train scientist field investigators after terrorist attacks, the laboratory of the Prefecture de Police of Paris simulated a suicide bombing attack in a bus. After collection of the residues, analyses were carried out to determine the composition of the original explosive charge. This article focuses on the combined use, for the first time, of three new capillary electrophoresis methods for the determination of inorganic anions and cations, and carbohydrates in two representative extracts. Capillary electrophoresis appears as an effective tool to identify and quantify the compounds in real extracts and is fully complementary to chromatographic methods.

Language: en