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Nicotine and Colored Complexes

1Department of Chemistry, University of Turin, Via P. Giuria 7, 10125 Turin, Italy


World Journal of Chemical Education. 2016, Vol. 4 No. 3, 67-72
DOI: 10.12691/wjce-4-3-4
Copyright © 2016 Science and Education Publishing

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Giorgio Volpi. Nicotine and Colored Complexes. World Journal of Chemical Education. 2016; 4(3):67-72. doi: 10.12691/wjce-4-3-4.

Correspondence to: Giorgio  Volpi, Department of Chemistry, University of Turin, Via P. Giuria 7, 10125 Turin, Italy. Email: giorgio.volpi@unito.it

Abstract

An activity for nicotine extraction and detection in tobacco. The procedure is based on the extraction of nicotine from tobacco, followed by the reaction between nicotine with Co(II) and Cu(II) ions. A qualitative experiment is proposed in order to demonstrate and visualize the presence of nicotine in tobacco and to demonstrate metal-nicotine complexes formation and their mass spectrometry (ESI) analysis.

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