A modified ninhydrin spray reagent, 3,5,-dinitrosalicylic acid-ninhydrin is capable of developing various distinguishable colours with many of the amino acids on thin layer plates. The detection limits for amino acids with this spray reagent range from 0.1 to 1.0 #mu#g and 0.01 to 0.8 #mu#g under two conditions.
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