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Volume 195, Issue 1, Pages 36-41 (25 February 2010)


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Comparative study of ATR and transflection IR spectroscopic techniques for the analysis of hallucinogenic mushrooms

A. KoçakaCorresponding Author Informationemail address, L.M. De Cotiisb, D.B. Hoffmana

Received 18 February 2009; received in revised form 27 October 2009; accepted 1 November 2009. published online 07 December 2009.

Abstract 

This paper compares the use of ATR and transflection spectroscopic techniques for the qualitative analysis of psilocin extracted from hallucinogenic mushrooms and control spiked mushrooms. Both techniques gave comparable results and agreed with prior GC/MS analysis of the actual case samples.

a John Jay College of Criminal Justice, The City University of New York, Department of Sciences, 445 W 59th Street, New York, NY 10019, United States

b New Jersey State Police Office of Forensic Sciences North Regional Laboratory, United States

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PII: S0379-0738(09)00444-7

doi:10.1016/j.forsciint.2009.11.002


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