Profiling of impurities in illicit methamphetamine by high-performance liquid chromatography and capillary electrochromatography |
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Authors: | Lurie I S Bailey C G Anex D S Bethea M J McKibben T D Casale J F |
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Affiliation: | a US Drug Enforcement Administration, Special Testing and Research Laboratory, 7704 Old Springhouse Road, McLean, VA 22102, USA b Chemical and Radiation Detection Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories, P.O. Box 969, Mail Stop 9671, Livermore, CA 94551, USA |
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Abstract: | High performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) with photodiode array (PDA) UV and fluorescence (FL) detection, and capillary electrochromatography (CEC) with laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) detection were investigated for the analysis of acidic extracts derived from illicit methamphetamine. These compounds include major impurities from the hydriodic acid/red phosphorous reduction method, i.e., 1,3-dimethyl-2-phenylnaphthalene and 1-benzyl-3-methylnaphthalene, and other trace-level, structurally related impurities. For certain of these solutes, HPLC with conventional FL detection gave at least a 60× increase in sensitivity over UV detection. In addition, other highly fluorescent impurities were detected in methamphetamine produced via four other synthetic routes. The use of a rapid scanning FL detector (with acquisition of “on the fly” excitation or emission) provided structural information and gave “optimum” excitation and emission detection wavelengths. CEC with LIF detection using UV laser excitation provided greatly improved chromatography over HPLC, with good detection limits in the low ng/ml range. Both methodologies provide good run-to-run repeatability, and have the capability to distinguish between samples. |
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Keywords: | Methamphetamine |
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