Open AccessEXPERT STUDY OF DESOMORPHTNE
Author(s) -
M. V. Zarubina,
Irina Sych
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
teorìâ ta praktika sudovoï ekspertizi ì krimìnalìstiki
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2708-5171
pISSN - 1993-0917
DOI - 10.32353/khrife.2015.32
Subject(s) - christian ministry , narcotic drugs , reagent , codeine , narcotic analgesics , thin layer chromatography , identification (biology) , gas chromatography , narcotic , qualitative analysis , chromatography , chemistry , law , computer science , political science , medicine , sociology , pharmacology , anesthesia , emergency medicine , biology , morphine , organic chemistry , qualitative research , social science , botany
The article deals with the problem of circulation of codeine containing drugs on the territory of Ukraine and its legal regulation. It provides an overview of the history of origin and main pharmacological properties of desomorphine, a semisynthetic opioid that is classified as a particularly dangerous controlled narcotic. The article describes main stages in desomorphine crude synthesis, the appearance of desomorphine samples in illegal circulation; it also suggests a scheme for identification of desomorphine in objects under study with the use of quality analysis methods applying common alkaloid reagents (Marquis, Froehde, Mandelin), ascending and 2-dimensional thin-layer chromatography, gas-liquid chromatography. The results obtained with quality reaction and thin-layer chromatography method with the use ofdeveloping reagents are presented in the respective tables and graphs. The suggested methods are informative, they can be used in express-analysis of unknown narcotics and crude psychotropic substances, particularly desomorphine, in expert institutions of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine, the Ministry for Internal Affairs of Ukraine to solve identification, classification and diagnostic expert tasks.