Identification of 1-butyl-3-(1-(4-methyl)naphthoyl)indole in a herbal mixture
F Westphal1, F D Sönnichsen, S Thiemt
1State Bureau of Criminal Investigation Schleswig-Holstein, Section Narcotics/Toxicology, Mühlenweg 166, 24116 Kiel, Germany. dr.-folker.westphal@polizei.landsh.de
Forensic Science International
|May 7, 2011
Abstract:
Besides the cannabinoid mimetic JWH-073, a novel 4 methylnaphthoyl homologue of JWH-073 was detected in a herbal mixture. The structure of the compound was elucidated after thin layer chromatographic enrichment from the herbal mixture by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and gas chromatographic mass spectrometric (GC-MS) analysis. The paper outlines data after GC-MS, liquid chromatography mass spectrometry (LC-MS) and NMR spectroscopy, and describes the structure elucidation.
