title: On-line identification of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) in tablets using a combination of a sweeping technique and micellar electrokinetic chromatography/77 K fluorescence spectroscopy.
abstract: This work describes a novel method for the accurate determination of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) in tablets. A technique involving sweeping-micellar electrokinetic chromatography (MEKC) was used for the initial on-line concentration and separation, after which a cryogenic molecular fluorescence experiment was performed at 77 K. Using this approach, not only the separation of LSD from the tablet extract was achieved, but on-line spectra were readily distinguishable and could be unambiguously assigned. The results are in agreement with analyses by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). Thus, this method, which was found to be accurate, sensitive and rapid, has the potential for use as a reliable complementary method to GC-MS in such analyses.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan Normal University, Wuku, Taipei, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Ching
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Fang
authors.forename: Ju-Tsung
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Cheng-Huang
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Lin
mesh_terms: D020374:Chromatography, Micellar Electrokinetic Capillary / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods*; D008401:Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry; D008238:Lysergic Acid Diethylamide / Q000032:analysis*; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D013050:Spectrometry, Fluorescence / Q000379:methods*; D013607:Tablets / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D013607:Tablets; D008238:Lysergic Acid Diethylamide