Single-crystal structure analysis of designer drugs circulating in the Japanese drug market by the synchrotron radiation X-ray diffraction

Autor: Yoshinori Nishiwaki, Shigeru Kimura, Nobuhiro Mizuno, Nobuhiro Yasuda, Ruri Hanajiri, Yuki Nakamura, Shinjiro Hayakawa, Takashi Hashimoto, Sadao Honda
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Powder Diffraction. 32:112-117
ISSN: 1945-7413
0885-7156
Popis: Over the past 20 years, many designer drugs derived from controlled substances have been widely distributed as easily available psychoactive substances and have become a serious problem in Japan. In order to determine the absolute structures of four new designer drugs derived from medicines (methylphenidate and phenmetrazine) X-ray single-crystal structure analyses were performed using the BL26B1 beamline of synchrotron radiation facility SPring-8. The results show that the molecular configuration of these designer drugs (having two asymmetric carbons), which were distributed in the illegal drug market had threo-forms as found for methylphenidate and phenmetrazine.
Databáze: OpenAIRE