Spectroscopic characterization of 3,4-methylenedioxypyrrolidinobutyrophenone: a new designer drug with α-pyrrolidinophenone structure

Folker Westphal; Thomas Junge; B Klein; Giselher Fritschi; Ulrich Girreser

doi:10.1016/j.forsciint.2011.01.016

Spectroscopic characterization of 3,4-methylenedioxypyrrolidinobutyrophenone: a new designer drug with α-pyrrolidinophenone structure

Forensic Sci Int. 2011 Jun 15;209(1-3):126-32. doi: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2011.01.016. Epub 2011 Feb 11.

Authors

Folker Westphal¹, Thomas Junge, B Klein, Giselher Fritschi, Ulrich Girreser

Affiliation

¹ State Bureau of Criminal Investigation Schleswig-Holstein, Section Narcotics/Toxicology, Kiel, Germany. dr.-folker.westphal@polizei.landsh.de

PMID: 21316166
DOI: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2011.01.016

Abstract

This study presents and discusses the infrared spectroscopic, the nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopic and mass spectrometric data of the designer drug 3,4 methylenedioxypyrrolidinobutyrophenone (MDPBP), a homolog of 3,4 methylenedioxypyrovalerone (MDPV). MDPBP was first seized in Germany in the year 2009. The structure elucidation of the aliphatic part of MDPBP was carried out by product ion spectrometry of the immonium ion with m/z=112 formed after electron ionization, and by one- and two-dimensional (1)H- and (13)C NMR spectroscopy.