METHOD FOR THE DETECTION OF CHEMICAL WARFARE AGENTS

摘要

The invention relates to a method for the detection of a chemical warfare agent or a mixture of chemical warfare agents in which a detection agent capable of fluorescing is brought into contact with the chemical warfare agent and reacts with the latter in such a way that the fluorescent light it emits is altered. …According to the invention, a detection agent is used whose logarithm of the acidity constant in the electronic ground state and whose logarithm of the acidity constant in the electronically excited state capable of emission differ by more than two, and whose protolytic form fluoresces in an organic solvent at a wavelength other than its protolytic form in water, and which is dissolved or dispersed in a solvent which is not miscible with the chemical warfare agent. …The advantages of the invention are, in particular, that a broad spectrum of chemical warfare agents can be detected without contact by the method according to the invention.