US 12,436,135 B2
Analytical process for detecting peroxide-, nitrate-, nitramine-, and nitrotoluene-based explosives
Rainer Herges, Kiel (DE); Morten Peters, Kiel (DE); and Mike Brockmann, Kiel (DE)
Assigned to Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Kiel (DE)
Appl. No. 17/291,389
Filed by Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Kiel (DE)
PCT Filed Mar. 30, 2021, PCT No. PCT/EP2021/058279
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date May 5, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/198249, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 7, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 20167599 (EP), filed on Apr. 1, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0308027 A1, Sep. 29, 2022
Int. Cl. G01N 31/22 (2006.01); G01N 21/78 (2006.01)
CPC G01N 31/228 (2013.01) [G01N 21/78 (2013.01); G01N 31/227 (2013.01); Y10T 436/206664 (2015.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An analytical process for detecting compounds in a sample suspected of containing a peroxide-based compound, a nitrate-based compound, a nitrotoluene-based compound, or a nitramine-based compound, the process comprising treating the sample with a superbase and then contacting the sample with a composition, wherein the composition comprises or consists of a Ni-porphyrin and an acid.