Citation

Zhang JX, Chen CY. Drug Test. Anal. 2012; 4(6): 530-533.

Affiliation

Drug Intelligence and Forensic Center of the Ministry of Public Security, Beijing, 100193, China. zhangjianxin7292000@yahoo.com.cn

Copyright

(Copyright © 2012, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1002/dta.1335

PMID

22522843

Abstract

The aim of this investigation was to profile samples of illicit heroin. It involved derivatization and gas chromatographic separation followed by a fully automated data analysis. Six major constituents (acetylcodeine, 6-monoacetylmorphine, papaverine, noscapine, codeine, and morphine) were tested and analyzed. The square cosine function was used to evaluate correlation values. The method proved to be efficient and reliable providing information on links between illicit heroin samples.

Language: en