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Marie-Louise O'Connell¹, Alan G Ryder, Marc N Leger

¹Nanoscale Biophotonics Laboratory, School of Chemistry, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland.

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Area of Science:

Analytical Chemistry
Spectroscopy
Chemometrics

Background:

Illicit drug identification is challenging due to sample diversity and concentration variations.
Traditional methods struggle with quantitative analysis of varied illicit narcotics.
Raman spectroscopy combined with chemometrics offers potential for in situ analysis.

Purpose of the Study:

To evaluate the effectiveness of Raman spectroscopy and chemometrics for identifying analytes in complex mixtures.
To develop and test a chemometric classification model for handling diverse sample matrices.
To assess the method's robustness against factors like fluorescence and spectral overlap.

Main Methods:

Created a large model sample set (633 samples) with acetaminophen as the target analyte and various excipients.
Utilized Raman spectroscopy to collect spectral data, focusing on the fingerprint region (750-1900 cm(-1)).
Employed chemometric classification models, including regression-based classification and SIMCA, with segmented cross-validation.

Main Results:

The first derivative of Raman spectra provided the best classification results.
Regression-based classification achieved over 90% correct identification rates.
SIMCA classification achieved approximately 35% correct identification, highlighting the superiority of the regression approach for this dataset.

Conclusions:

Raman spectroscopy and chemometrics can achieve reliable analyte identification despite significant sample variance and spectral complexity.
The developed chemometric classification approach effectively handles diverse sample matrices, outperforming spectral matching.
The model sample set serves as a valuable resource for validating advanced algorithms for illicit substance identification.