Inside Cover: A Colorimetric Sensor Array for the Detection of the Date-Rape Drug γ-Hydroxybutyric Acid (GHB): A Supramolecular Approach (Chem. Eur. J. 15/2010)

✍ Scribed by Laurent A. Baumes; Mireia Buaki Sogo; Pedro Montes-Navajas; Avelino Corma; Hermenegildo Garcia

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 489 KB
• Volume: 16
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0947-6539
• DOI: 10.1002/chem.201090069

✦ Synopsis

g-Hydroxybutyric acid (GHB)… … is a euphoriant and aphrodisiac drug that can cause death. In their Full Paper on p. 4489 ff., H. Garcia et al. describe the development of a chemical tongue based on the concept of host-guest complexes between tricyclic basic dyes and cucurbiturils. This sensor array can instantaneously discriminate GHB from precursors and related carboxylates.