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SynthesisChemical research in toxicology2023

A Systematic Review of Analytical Methods for the Separation of Nicotine Enantiomers and Evaluation of Nicotine Sources.

Sally Salam, Fatima El-Hajj Moussa, Rachel El-Hage, Ahmad El-Hellani, Najat Aoun Saliba

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Synthesis in Chemical research in toxicology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12citing papers in PubMed
2.9field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

12 citing papers in PubMed, 26 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Sally SalamDepartment of Chemistry, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, American University of Beirut, Beirut 1107 2020, Lebanon.ORCID 0000-0001-6935-9343
Fatima El-Hajj MoussaDepartment of Chemistry, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, American University of Beirut, Beirut 1107 2020, Lebanon.
Rachel El-HageDepartment of Chemistry, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, American University of Beirut, Beirut 1107 2020, Lebanon.
Ahmad El-HellaniDivision of Environmental Health Sciences, College of Public Health, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210, United States.
Najat Aoun SalibaDepartment of Chemistry, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, American University of Beirut, Beirut 1107 2020, Lebanon.ORCID 0000-0002-4276-1524
American University of Beirut · LBVirginia Commonwealth University · USThe Ohio State University · US

Funding

Project 4: Using a prospective cohort survey to test population-level predictions generated by Projects 1-3U54DA036105 · NIDA · VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY · PI BRELAND, ALISON, EISSENBERG, THOMAS EVAN · 2018 to 2022
$20.8M
NIDA NIH HHS U54 DA036105
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The introduction of synthetic nicotine by the tobacco industry, also promoted as tobacco-free nicotine, presented new challenges for analytical chemists working in tobacco regulatory science to develop and optimize new methods to assess new nicotine parameters, namely enantiomer ratio and source. We conducted a systematic literature review of the available analytical methods to detect the nicotine enantiomer ratio and the source of nicotine using PubMed and Web of Science databases. Methods to detect nicotine enantiomers included polarimetry, nuclear magnetic resonance, and gas and liquid chromatography. We also covered methods developed to detect the source of nicotine either indirectly via determining the nicotine enantiomer ratio or the detection of tobacco-specific impurities or directly using the isotope ratio enrichment analysis by nuclear magnetic resonance (site-specific natural isotope fractionation and site-specific peak intensity ratio) or accelerated mass spectrometry. This review presents an accessible summary of all these analytical methods.

Indexed as

NicotineChromatography, LiquidMass SpectrometryNicotine

Identifiers

PMID36897818
PMCPMC10031562
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