Affiliation:
1. B.Sc., Ph.D., Home Office Forensic Science Laboratory, Bristol
Abstract
The use of permanganate oxidation in the resolution of mixtures of barbiturates with unsaturated side-chains, which are encountered in cases of poisoning, was previously reported in this Journal (Stevens, 1962). This work is here extended to include barbiturates with saturated side-chains which were not amenable to the permanganate method. A note is also included on the behaviour of Primidone in this scheme, and suggestions made as to the nature of barbiturate oxidations.
Subject
Law,Health Policy,Issues, ethics and legal aspects