著者
Hasan DURMUS Selen DURMAZEL Aysem ÜZER Bahar GÖKDERE Erol ERÇAG Resat APAK
出版者
The Japan Society for Analytical Chemistry
雑誌
Analytical Sciences (ISSN:09106340)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.34, no.12, pp.1419-1425, 2018-12-10 (Released:2018-12-10)
参考文献数
55
被引用文献数
7

Cannabis is an important industrial plant, in addition to its illicit drug use. Compound Δ9-THC (Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol) is mainly responsible for the hallucinogenic effect on humans. The aminoalkylindole group cannabimimetics targets at the same physiological receptors to mimic the analgesic effects of Δ9-THC. Since there is no reliable colorimetric test to detect these synthetic cannabimimetics on site, a simple colorimetric assay for (aminoalkyl)indole group-containing drugs was developed, based on the silica/sulfuric acid-catalyzed Ehrlich reaction of (aminoalkyl)indoles with p-dimethylaminobenzaldehyde. The electrophilic substitution reaction of indoles with carbonyl compounds resulting in the formation of bis(indolyl)alkanes in an acid-catalyzed reaction has been used for the first time for their spectrophotometric determination by color change from yellow to purple/blue. The method was statistically validated against liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry, and applied to certain (aminoalkyl)indole derivatives, with 0.5 – 2.5 μg mL−1 detection limits for AM-2201, JWH-081, MAM-2201, JWH-018, JWH-210, JWH-122, 5F-PB-22 and XLR-11.