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Kathryn Kellett1, J Hugh Broome, Mire Zloh
1Department of Pharmacy, Pharmacology and Postgraduate Medicine, School of Life and Medical Sciences, University of Hertfordshire, Al10 9AB UK. J.Stair@herts.ac.uk.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|May 21, 2016
Abstract:
An anthracene molecular probe has been synthesised and shown to target mephedrone, a stimulant drug from the cathinone class of new psychoactive substances (NPS). A protocol has been developed to detect mephedrone via the probe using NMR spectroscopy in a simulated street sample containing two of the most common cutting agents, benzocaine and caffeine.
