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Chirasil-DEX CB

A cyclodextrin-based chiral gas chromatography column (Agilent) used for baseline resolution of d- and l-methamphetamine and d- and l-amphetamine enantiomers in forensic...

Compound-Specific IRMS (CSIA)

A technique combining preparative GC separation with isotope ratio mass spectrometry to measure 13C/12C and D/H ratios in individual compounds (e.g. the...

Enantiomeric Excess (Ee)

A measure of chiral purity: ee (%) = (R - S)/(R + S) x 100, where R and S are the measured...

Erythroxylum Coca

The principal alkaloid-bearing species of the coca genus, native to the Andean highlands. The dominant species in illicit cocaine production is E....

Pasta Base (Coca Paste)

The intermediate product in cocaine extraction: cocaine sulphate precipitated from the acid-wash aqueous layer after solvent extraction, at 40-90 per cent purity....

Phenylacetone (P2P, BMK)

1-phenyl-2-propanone; the key precursor in the Leuckart and reductive amination routes to amphetamine and methamphetamine. Controlled under UN 1988 Convention Table I,...

PMK-Glycidate

Piperonylmethylketone (PMK) glycidate ester; a PMK substitute used as the principal MDMA precursor in European clandestine labs after PMK was scheduled. Added...

Safrole

4-allyl-1,2-methylenedioxybenzene; extracted from sassafras oil (Cinnamomum camphora, Cambodia, Vietnam, Brazil) and the original MDMA precursor. Controlled under UN 1988 Convention Table I;...

Scott Test

A three-step cobalt thiocyanate presumptive test for cocaine and its salts. Step 1: cobalt thiocyanate reagent (blue in aqueous phase). Step 2:...

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• Stimulants: Cocaine, Amphetamines, Methamphetamine and MDMAA veterinary antihelminthic found as an adulterant in approximately 80 per cent of cocaine seizures in North America and Western Europe since 2014. Its metabol...