Suicidal poisoning by endothall.
A fatal case of suicidal ingestion of the herbicide endothall (7-oxabicyclo [2,2,1]heptane-2,3-dicarboxylic acid) is described. Endothall was determined after initial phosphotungstic acid deproteination followed by extraction using 1,2-dichloroethane:tert-butanol (2:1) and subsequent injection into the gas chromatograph equipped with a flame ionization detector. Identity was confirmed by thin-layer chromatography, infrared spectrophotometry, and gas chromatography/mass spectrometry.
D000328:Adult; D002849:Chromatography, Gas; D002855:Chromatography, Thin Layer; D003998:Dicarboxylic Acids / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000506:poisoning*; D008401:Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013055:Spectrophotometry, Infrared; D013405:Suicide
D003998:Dicarboxylic Acids; C100030:endothall