ACS Noteworthy Chemistry, in its August 15th edition, has highlighted an NJC article in a post entitled “Use cobalt(II) thiocyanate with TLC to identify cocaine” among the weekly selected publications presenting the most innovative ideas.
In this NJC article, O. Siri and co-workers from the University of Marseille (France) have designed a novel method for cocaine detection using cobalt thiocyanate reagent impregnated directly on TLC plates. This new strategy is rapid, low cost and offers perspectives for future use as a new field test kit for the identification of illicit substances.
Cobalt thiocyanate reagent revisited for cocaine identification on TLC
Rose Haddoub, Daniel Ferry, Philippe Marsal and Olivier Siri,
New J. Chem., 2011, 35, 1351-1354.; to read the original paper (if a subscriber)
