Publications by authors named "Elisabeth Seibert"

Synthetic cathinones belong to one of the biggest and most popular classes of New Psychoactive Substances. Each year, new derivatives appear on the drug market, traded under various labels like "bath salts" or "legal highs". In recent years, the emergence of new cathinone derivatives, containing a cyclohexyl residue, has been observed.

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  • Sub/supercritical fluid chromatography is a greener technique using carbon dioxide, with organic co-solvents like dimethyl carbonate enhancing its effectiveness for separation.
  • A study tested dimethyl carbonate as a co-solvent for separating novel psychoactive substances, finding it effective, especially with basic or mixed additives, outperforming traditional co-solvents like methanol.
  • Using sustainable co-solvents like dimethyl carbonate reduces the environmental impact of analytical processes, promoting greener chemistry practices.
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Each year, new psychoactive substances appear on the global drug market leading to constant changes. Most of these compounds with stimulating effect possess a chiral center, thus leading to two enantiomers with presumably different pharmacological properties. Among them, synthetic cathinones, often misleadingly traded as "bath salts," play an important role.

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The ongoing development of more and more new psychoactive substances continues to be a huge problem in 2022 affecting the European and international drug market. Through slight alterations in the structure of illicit drugs, a way to circumvent the law is created, as the created derivatives serve as legal alternatives with similar effects. A common way of structure modification is the induction of a halogen residue.

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This study aimed to design a hybrid oral liposomal delivery system for selenium nanoparticles (Lip-SeNPs) to improve the bioavailability of selenium. Thiolated chitosan, a multifunctional polymer with mucoadhesive properties, was used for surface functionalization of Lip-SeNPs. Selenium nanoparticle (SeNP)-loaded liposomes were manufactured by a single step microfluidics-assisted chemical reduction and assembling process.

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