Direct analysis of psychoactive tryptamine and harmala alkaloids in the Amazonian botanical medicine ayahuasca by liquid chromatography-electrospray ionization-tandem mass spectrometry.
Journal of Chromatography A December 18, 2009 Ethan H. Mcilhenny, Kelly E Pipkin, Leanna J Standish et al. 58 citations
A direct injection/liquid chromatography-electrospray ionization-tandem mass spectrometry procedure has been developed for the simultaneous quantitation of 11 compounds potentially found in the increasingly popular Amazonian botanical medicine and religious sacrament ayahuasca. The method utilizes a deuterated internal standard for quantitation and affords rapid detection of the alkaloids by a...
DOI: 10.1016/j.chroma.2009.10.088 (opens in new tab)
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Ayahuasca
Analytical chemistry
Mass spectrometry
Psychoactive compounds