Postmortem identification and quantitation of 2,5-dimethoxy-4-n-propylthiophenethylamine using GC-MSD and GC-NPD.
Journal of analytical toxicology October 1, 2003 Byron Curtis, Philip Kemp, Linda Harty et al. 69 citations
2,5-Dimethoxy-4-n-propylthiophenethylamine (2C-T-7), a compound similar to MDMA, was identified in a routine postmortem screening of a 20-year-old man who died after reportedly insufflating 35 mg. A quantitative method for detecting 2C-T-7 in blood, urine, and liver was developed using liquid-liquid extraction and gas chromatography with nitrogen-phosphorus detection and mass spectrometry. Detection and quantitation limits in blood were 6.0 and 15.6 ng/mL. In the case, heart blood contained 57 ng/mL, femoral blood 100 ng/mL, urine 1120 ng/mL, and liver 854 ng/g.