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Rapid High-throughput Species Identification of Botanical Material Using Direct Analysis in Real Time High Resolution Mass Spectrometry
Published on: October 2, 2016
Comparative study of ATR and transflection IR spectroscopic techniques for the analysis of hallucinogenic mushrooms
A Koçak1, L M De Cotiis, D B Hoffman
1John Jay College of Criminal Justice, The City University of New York, Department of Sciences, New York, NY 10019, USA. akocak@jjay.cuny.edu
Abstract:
This paper compares the use of ATR and transflection spectroscopic techniques for the qualitative analysis of psilocin extracted from hallucinogenic mushrooms and control spiked mushrooms. Both techniques gave comparable results and agreed with prior GC/MS analysis of the actual case samples.
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