Abstract:Being morphine a restricted drug, a rapid colour test for its detection is very useful. Tattersall employed as reagent trisodium ortho-arsenate in sulphuric acid. However, the more common disodiumhydrogen ortho-arsenate heptahydrate can be used also because both salts yield the same reactive species, that is, protonated arsenic acid and a cation with arsenic(IV). An arsenate is formed with the phenolic group in morphine. Dehydration of this organometallic ester yields a cationic intermediate that induces react… Show more
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