Mass Spectra of Designer Drugs 2013

Compounds classified as Designer Drugs have been synthesized since the early 1980s. This is not a precise scientific term and should only be applied to those drugs that are synthesized from common chemicals and skillfully marketed under attractive, often exotic names. The last decade has seen a proliferation of such substances, such that keeping abreast of this huge number of new drugs is a difficult task for forensic chemists and toxicologists.

The Designer Drugs 2013 cover the entire range of designer drugs up to December 2012.
Carefully compiled by the mass spectral experts at the Regional Departments of Criminal Investigation in Kiel, Hamburg, and Wiesbaden, Germany, this database includes:
- 15,556 chemical compounds
- 19,037 mass spectra, about 2,859 more spectra than in the 2012 edition
- Chemical structures
- Chemical warfare agents, added due to the interest in homeland security
- Data taken from both legal and underground literature, providing the most comprehensive picture of these compounds
- Average peaks per spectrum: 170
- Average Quality Index: 941
- Experimental Kovats indices: 11061
- Calculated Kovats indices
- Added as separate data collection: more than 10,000 ESI LC-MS/MS spectra of 750 compounds.

The MS/MS data are a valuable and complementary supplement to the EI GC/MS collection. The MS/MS data have been acquired under standardized conditions and are fully searchable.


Compound structure:
Number of amphetamines: 1469
Number of methylenedioxyphenethylamines: 666
Number of phenethylamines: 2014
Number of tryptamines: 462
Number of piperazines: 904
Number of opiates: 259
Number of fentanyles: 320
Number of cathinones: 504
Number of phencyclidines: 16
Number of tropines: 97
Number of indoles: 894
Number of barbiturates: 79
Number of cannabinoids: 255
Number of cannabimimetics: 528
Number of steroids: 190
Number of arylpropan-2-amines: 266
Number of arylbutan-2-amines: 433
Number of indane-2-amines: 67
Number of 1-aryl-2-nitro-ethenes: 43
Number of 1-aryl-2-nitroprop-1-enes: 68
Number of 1-aryl-2-nitrobut-1-ene: 44
Number of benzaldehydes: 150
Number of derivatives: 5724
Number of metabolites incl. derivatives: 4136
Number of chemical warfare agents: 71
Number of designer drug precursors: 1158
Number of benzodiazepines: 272
Number of pharmaceutical drugs incl. metabolites: 4460
Number of pesticides: 315
Number of explosives: 53
Number of controlled compounds: 2621


Available Database Formats: ACD; Agilent Chemstation; NIST MSSEARCH; Finnigan GCQ, SSQ, TSQ, ICIS, INCOS, Iontrap, ITS40, Magnum; INCOS; PE Turbomass; Shimadzu QP-5000; Thermo Galactic SpectralID; Varian Saturn;VG Labbase, Masslab; Waters Masslynx; Xcalibur