Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Characterization and Determination of the New Psychoactive Substance Benzylone: Application in a Biological Fluid.

ABSTRACT: New psychoactive substances (NPS)-designed to mimic various legal or illegal substances-are an emerging worldwide health problem. Their identification and quantification in either complex seized samples or powders are critical; moreover, their determination in biological fluids is an intriguing goal in the forensic toxicology field. Synthetic cathinones are one of the most important groups among NPS. The current paper was designed as a pilot study to investigate the application of NMR techniques to identify and quantify unknown NPS compounds in deuterated dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO-d₆) and in urine using the synthetic cathinone benzylone (3,4-methylenedioxy-N-benzylcathinone, BMDP) as a pilot compound. In the first part of our study, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopic

SUBMITTER: Florou D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11788120 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature