Identification of drugs and their derivatives.

This paper represents a brief review of traditional procedures for the analysis of confiscated drugs and the application of these procedures to the products formed after reductive fragmentation and halogen-acetylated derivatization of the drugs. Confiscated pills, already tentatively identified by some previous procedure, were analyzed by the use of infrared spectroscopy, ultraviolet spectroscopy, and gas chromatography. The same drugs were confirmed by analyzing the alcohols obtained after reductive fragmentation with LiA1H4 as well as the acetylated derivative fractions.