Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) and analogs are psychedelic drugs commonly submitted to forensic chemistry laboratories. These drugs are often present on items of evidence at low concentrations, requiring sensitive analyses to positively identify their presence. The injection port of a gas chromatograph (GC) plays an important role in vaporizing and transferring substances to the column for...
Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) and analogs are psychedelic drugs commonly submitted to forensic chemistry laboratories. These drugs are often present on items of evidence at low concentrations, requiring sensitive analyses to positively identify their presence. The injection port of a gas chromatograph (GC) plays an important role in vaporizing and transferring substances to the column for...
Ketamine is an anesthetic drug used recreationally for its psychoactive effects. Recently, the use of ketamine has increased. Ketamine is a chiral compound with two enantiomers, S-ketamine (esketamine) and R-ketamine (arketamine). Though the S- enantiomer is more potent, pharmaceutical ketamine is most often racemic. Asymmetric synthesis or optical resolution can be performed to increase the...