TIAFT User Contributed Collection of EI Mass Spectra

The TIAFT is an international association which aims "to promote cooperation and coordination of efforts among members and to encourage research in forensic toxicology. The members come from the police force, medical examiners and coroners' laboratories, horseracing and sports doping laboratories, hospitals, departments of legal medicine, pharmacology, pharmacy and toxicology." The TIAFT web site is an invaluable resource to anyone involved in forensic sciences.

The TAIFT provides a small (but growing) collection of mass spectra on their web site that can be downloaded by anyone. The description of the database (taken from the TIAFT web site) is as follows:

"Among the aims of the Systematic Toxicological Analysis & Guidelines Committee of T.I.A.F.T. is the diffusion of reference analytical data in order to assist toxicologists in the identification of unknown toxic substances.

In this view, we have decided to join the collections of home-made reference electron impact mass spectra of derivatives produced by TIAFT members and make them available freely on the internet.

The intention is to complete commercial databases with new upcoming or uncommon substances or less frequent derivatives of drugs.

This initial collection currently contains 205 mass spectra and includes 122 spectra of TMS derivatives of drugs, courtesy of Aldo Polettini, and 82 examples of various derivatives of doping relevant substances, courtesy of Klaus Müller and Detlef Thieme.

The library is in the Hewlett-Packard Chemstation Operative System format and can be used with HP 5970-73 GC-MS systems.

It is our intention to upgrade the collection with other mass spectra of drugs, poisons, metabolites and derivatives, and we would be pleased to receive contributions from visitors of this website.

If you have even just one home-made reference mass spectrum that you think it may be useful, for any reasons, to your colleagues please send it to us by contacting Aldo Polettini (apole@unipv.it) or Detlef Thieme (det.thieme@t-online.de).

The editors of this collection of mass spectra assume no responsibility for any error contained in the database. Should you find any error in the collection, please inform us. The use or reproduction of the material contained in the collection is not allowed unless explicit reference to the source is made. Please read the Disclaimer."

In addition, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc. makes no guarantees or warranties on the usefulness or correctness of the spectral data and associated information.

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