Isolation and structural elucidation of flibanserin as an adulterant in a health supplement used for female sexual performance enhancement

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Low MY, Li L, Ge X, Kee CL, Koh HL.
J Pharm Biomed Anal. 2012 Jan 5;57:104-8.
A health supplement used for female sexual performance enhancement was sent to Health Sciences Authority of Singapore for testing. An unknown compound was detected and isolated from the health supplement and its structure was elucidated using LC-DAD, LC-FTMS, NMR and IR. The detected compound was identified to be flibanserin, a non-hormonal treatment developed for pre-menopausal woman with hypoactive sexual desire disorder (HSDD)

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Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore, 18 Science Drive 4, Singapore 117543, Singapore.