PMID- 17944907
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
DCOM- 20080228
LR  - 20071220
IS  - 0022-1198 (Print)
IS  - 0022-1198 (Linking)
VI  - 52
IP  - 6
DP  - 2007 Nov
TI  - A review of recent advances in impurity profiling of illicit MDMA samples.
PG  - 1297-304
AB  - Profiling illicit ecstasy tablets has the potential to become an invaluable tool 
      in the crackdown on drug trafficking, but that potential has yet to be fully 
      realized. The impurity profile of an ecstasy tablet can be used to determine the 
      method employed to synthesize the actual controlled substance, which in most 
      cases, is 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA). Tablets can then be linked to 
      a common synthetic route, potentially to a common manufacturer, and possibly even 
      to a common manufacturing batch, based on the impurities present. Current methods 
      for profiling MDMA tablets typically involve extracting the organic impurities 
      for analysis by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. The potential of profiling 
      the trace metals present in tablets has begun to be investigated while more 
      robust statistical and chemometric procedures are being applied to compare and 
      link tablets. This article reviews the recent advances in MDMA impurity profiling 
      from 2002 up to the end of 2006.
FAU - Waddell-Smith, Ruth J H
AU  - Waddell-Smith RJ
AD  - School of Criminal Justice & Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University, 
      560 Baker Hall, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA. waddell0@msu.edu
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20071017
PL  - United States
TA  - J Forensic Sci
JT  - Journal of forensic sciences
JID - 0375370
EDAT- 2007/10/20 09:00
MHDA- 2007/10/20 09:01
CRDT- 2007/10/20 09:00
PHST- 2007/10/20 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2007/10/20 09:01 [medline]
PHST- 2007/10/20 09:00 [entrez]
AID - JFO559 [pii]
AID - 10.1111/j.1556-4029.2007.00559.x [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Forensic Sci. 2007 Nov;52(6):1297-304. doi: 10.1111/j.1556-4029.2007.00559.x. 
      Epub 2007 Oct 17.