The Quantitation of Psilocybin in Hallucinogenic Mushrooms Using High Performance Liquid Chromatography
Journal of Forensic Sciences October 1, 1983 Sm Sottolano, Ira S. Lurie 21 citations
A method using high-performance liquid chromatography with a specific mobile phase and column enables rapid, selective, and accurate measurement of psilocybin in dried mushroom material. A simple one-step extraction process recovers psilocybin in under 60 minutes. The ratio of absorbance at 267 to 254 nanometers is used to verify the purity of the psilocybin peak.