摘要:As a practical application of mass spectrometry in forensic chemistry, mass spectra of eleven kinds of barbiturates including their metabolites were measured. Initial fragmentation of the barbiturates was classified into two large patterns : (a) elimination of the 5'-substituent as an olefin molecule (barbital, phenobarbital, amobarbital, etc.), and (b) elimination of the 5'-substituent as a radical (ethylhexabital, methylhexabital, allobarbital, etc.). Identification of ethylhexabital and its metabolites extracted from urine after administration of ethylhexabital was successfully made by the combination of thin-layer chromatography and mass spectrometry.