Distinguishing legal and illegal cigarettes by applying paper spray mass spectrometry and chemometric tools.
Marina JurischCamila Cristina Almeida de PaulaRodinei AugustiPublished in: Rapid communications in mass spectrometry : RCM (2020)
A novel methodology was successfully developed associating the PS-MS technique with chemometric analysis to differentiate between legal and illegal cigarettes. The PS-MS technique proved to be adequate for obtaining fingerprints of such types of samples despite high complexity, and a PLS-DA model was successfully constructed achieving 82.1% accuracy.