Discuss “Researchers detect palladium”

A team of chemists at the University of Pittsburgh has discovered an effective and cost-efficient method of detecting palladium and platinum deposits in a product, such as medicine.

This new technique uses a highly receptive fluorescent sensor to expose palladium and platinum vestiges in less than 60 minutes.

The research was conducted by chemistry professor Kazunori Koide, post-doctoral fellow Fengling Song, and chemistry graduate student Amanda Garner at the University of Pittsburgh.

Koide specializes in the organic synthesis of natural products, researching new synthetic methods,  diversity-oriented synthesis, and organic fluorescent sensors, as stated on his faculty web page.

The find was officially published online in the Journal...