Ephedrone: 2-Methylamino-1-Phenylpropan-1-One (Jeff)
Zhingel, KY
Research scientist, Svetlanovsky Prospekt, Leningrad, USSR.

Dovensky, W
Toxicologist, Ashtabula County Laboratory, Jefferson, OH.

Crossman, A
Research scientist and Ph.D. candidate, respectively, The American University, Washington, DC.

Allen, A
Research scientist and Ph.D. candidate, respectively, The American University, Washington, DC.


Abstract
Ephedrine and pseudoephedrine, commonly used in clandestine laboratories within the United States to synthesize methamphetamine by means of reduction, are utilized within the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) in synthetic oxidation with potassium permanganate to form 2-methylamino-1-phenylpropan-1-one. This ketone product of methamphetamine, termed “ephedrone” and “Jeff,” is profiled with the use of spot tests, infrared spectrophotometry, mass spectrometry, gas chromatography, ultraviolet spectroscopy, and hydrogen (¹H) and carbon-13 (¹³C) nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy.

Keywords:
ephedrine, ephedrone, forensic science, methamphetamine, toxicology

Paper ID: JFS363910915

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