Identification of drugs using FTIR in a case of illegal abortion: A forensic study
Central Forensic Science Laboratory, Directorate of Forensic Science Services, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt. of India.
Research Article
GSC Biological and Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2022, 18(03), 083–091.
Article DOI: 10.30574/gscbps.2022.18.3.0089
Publication history:
Received on 22 January 2022; revised on 10 March 2022; accepted on 12 March 2022
Abstract:
Illegal or criminal abortion is defined as termination of pregnancy in the violation of law. In many cases, doctors perform abortion without the consent of parents or only mothers, which is an offence against mother and/or father. Abortifacient are being frequently used for the same purpose, misoprostol is one of the drug, whose role is to expel dead fetus and placenta by controlling uterine muscles. The aim of this study was to identify misoprostol, a pharmaceutical drug using ATR technique of FTIR by identifying peaks which lies in fingerprint region. Five major peaks, 3304, 2912, 1731, 1364 and 1016 cm-1, were obtained, though as time lapses, peaks get deteriorate.
Keywords:
Abortion; Misoprostol; FTIR; Acetonitrile; Pharmaceutical drug; Attenuated Total Reflection (ATR)
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