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H159

Heroin

analytical standard, ≥98% (HPLC)

Synonym(s):

Diacetylmorphine

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Empirical Formula (Hill Notation):
C21H23NO5
CAS Number:
561-27-3
Molecular Weight:
369.41
NACRES:
NA.24
PubChem Substance ID:
329815171
UNSPSC Code:
41116107
EC Number:
209-217-7
MDL number:
MFCD00468072

Product Name

Heroin, analytical standard, ≥98% (HPLC)

InChI

1S/C21H23NO5/c1-11(23)25-16-6-4-13-10-15-14-5-7-17(26-12(2)24)20-21(14,8-9-22(15)3)18(13)19(16)27-20/h4-7,14-15,17,20H,8-10H2,1-3H3/t14-,15+,17-,20-,21-/m0/s1

InChI key

GVGLGOZIDCSQPN-PVHGPHFFSA-N

SMILES string

CN1CC[C@]23[C@H]4Oc5c(OC(C)=O)ccc(C[C@@H]1[C@@H]2C=C[C@@H]4OC(C)=O)c35

grade

analytical standard

assay

≥98% (HPLC)

form

powder

drug control

USDEA Schedule I; regulated under CDSA - not available from Sigma-Aldrich Canada; estupefaciente (Spain); Decreto Lei 15/93: Tabela IA (Portugal); Kábítószer / Narcotic Drug (Hungary), 78/2022. (XII. 28.) BM rendelet
kontrollierte Droge in Deutschland

Quality Level

100

storage condition

desiccated

technique(s)

HPLC: suitable
gas chromatography (GC): suitable

color

white to beige

solubility

H2O: <0.2 mg/mL
DMSO: 5 mg/mL, clear
ethanol: 6 mg/mL
0.1 M HCl: <6.67 mg/mL

application(s)

forensics and toxicology
pharmaceutical (small molecule)
veterinary

format

neat

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Application

Heroin may be used as a standard to determine the amount of heroin present in clandestine heroin samples using capillary zone electrophoresis (CZE) technique. Heroin may be used as an analytical reference standard for the quantification of the analyte in biological samples using different chromatography techniques.
Heroin may be used as a standard to determine the amount of heroin present in clandestine heroin samples using capillary zone electrophoresis (CZE) technique.
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General description

Heroin is a highly addictive illicit drug and opioid agonist, widely used in medical applications as an analgesic.

Legal Information

German
Dieses Produkt fällt unter das Betäubungsmittelgesetz (BtMG). Für eine Bestellung dieses Produktes ist eine Erlaubnis nach § 3 BtMG zwingend erforderlich, es sei denn, es greift eine Ausnahme von der Erlaubnispflicht nach § 4 oder § 26 BtMG.

English
This product is subject to the German Narcotics Act. A permit under Section 3 of the German Narcotics Act is mandatory for ordering this product unless an exemption from the permit requirement under Section 4 or Section 26 of the German Narcotics Act applies.

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Skull and crossbones
GHS06

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Danger

Hazard Classifications

Acute Tox. 2 Dermal - Acute Tox. 2 Inhalation - Acute Tox. 2 Oral

Storage Class

6.1A - Combustible, acute toxic Cat. 1 and 2 / very toxic hazardous materials

wgk

WGK 3

flash_point_f

Not applicable

flash_point_c

Not applicable

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Lot/Batch Number
0000341823
0000341823
0000240298
0000182100
0000182100

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Providing take-home naloxone (THN) to people who use opioids is an increasingly common strategy for reversing opioid overdose. However, implementation is hindered by doubts regarding the ability of people who use opioids to administer naloxone and respond appropriately to overdoses.
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Culture, medicine and psychiatry, 40(4), 664-686 (2016-06-09)
The past decade in the U.S. has been marked by a media fascination with the white prescription opioid cum heroin user. In this paper, we contrast media coverage of white non-medical opioid users with that of black and brown heroin
Ella Dilkes-Frayne et al.
The International journal on drug policy, 44, 164-173 (2017-06-06)
Addiction is generally understood to be characterised by a persistent pattern of regular, heavy alcohol and other drug consumption. Current models of addiction tend to locate the causes of these patterns within the body or brain of the individual, sidelining
Diacetylmorphine degradation to 6-monoacetylmorphine and morphine in cell culture: implications for in vitro studies
Hutchinson.RM, et al.
European Journal of Pharmacology, 453(1), 27-32 (2002)
Jennifer A Martin et al.
Nature communications, 10(1), 4140-4140 (2019-09-14)
Persistent transcriptional and morphological events in the nucleus accumbens (NAc) and other brain reward regions contribute to the long-lasting behavioral adaptations that characterize drug addiction. Opiate exposure reduces the density of dendritic spines on medium spiny neurons of the NAc;
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