“…Several procedures have been reported in the literature for analysis of cinchocaine including spectrophotometry (Saleh and Askal, 1995;El-Gindy et al, 1998;Abdel-Ghani et al, 2005), fluorometry (Essig and Kovar, 2001), liquid chromatography (Padmanabhan, 1983;Izumoto et al, 1997), gas chromatography (Alkalay et al, 1981;Padmanabhan, 1983), thin-layer chromatography (Padmanabhan, 1983;Turan et al, 1989), polarography (Fernandez-Marcote et al, 1996) and potentiometric titration (European Pharmacopoeia, 2002), among others (Shirahama et al, 1983;Netesina et al, 1992;Cherkaoui and Veuthey, 1999;Okamoto et al, 2001). Development of suitable techniques for selective and sensitive determination of drugs in biological samples is of great interest, since the complexity of these samples, including large numbers of endogenous compounds, makes selective detection quite difficult.…”