title: Capillary gas chromatographic analysis of illicit diamorphine preparations.
abstract: An improved capillary gas chromatographic method for the analysis of illicit diamorphine preparation is reported. The method was able to resolve the impurities and more frequent adulterants and contaminants present in street heroin preparations with a diamorphine detection limit of 0.2 ng in split-less mode.
mesh_terms: D002849:Chromatography, Gas / Q000379:methods*; D004340:Drug Contamination; D005554:Forensic Medicine; D003932:Heroin / Q000032:analysis*
chemical_list: D003932:Heroin