Forensic Analysis in Chemistry
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Medicinal Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2023) | Viewed by 34385
Special Issue Editors
Interests: forensic toxicology; drugs of abuse; novel psychoactive substances; toxicological assays; forensic chemistry
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2. Centro de Química Estrutural, Institute of Molecular Sciences, Departamento de Química e Bioquímica, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
Interests: forensic chemistry; chromatography; capillary electrophoresis; sample preparation; toxicology; drugs of abuse; contaminants; pollutants
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Globalization has dramatically changed the crime landscape all around the world. Today, national, and transnational crime makes forensic investigations even more complex. This is especially true in forensic chemistry, where the appearance of new psychoactive substances on the market almost every week, the occurrence of unlawful discharges of multicompounds on the environment, food adulteration and contamination, the use of more complex explosives and precursors, and, at the same time, acknowledgement of the benefits as well as the restraints of laboratory certification and accreditation make the work of forensic analysts in chemistry even more challenging.
This Special Issue of Molecules welcomes original research articles, communications, and review articles dealing with research on the topics discussed above, as well as in all other fields in chemistry applied to solving forensic issues, including drug analysis, safe consumption, suspected documents, ink profiling and aging, accelerant analysis, explosives, latent fingerprint revelation, thanatochemistry, wastewater-based epidemiology, and forensic chemometrics. We are certain that this will be an excellent forum for providing and discussing recent developments in the field.
Dr. Alexandre Quintas
Dr. Samir Ahmad
Dr. Carla Ferreira
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- new psychoactive substances
- drugs of abuse
- toxicology
- pollution
- explosives
- inks
- documents
- fingerprinting
- chemometrics
- accreditation
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