Abstract
The complex, bis-(N,N-diethyl-4-methyl-4-piperazine-1-carboxamide) tetra-kis(iso-thio-cyanato-κN)cobalt(II) (N,N-diethyl-4-methyl-4-piperazine-1-carboxamide = di-ethyl-carbamazine), (C10H22N3O)2[Co(NCS)4], is presented. This com-plex is a blue precipitate, insoluble in water but soluble in organic solvents, that is formed from the reaction of diethylcarbamazine citrate, a protonated tertiary amine, with cobalt(II) and thio-cyanate. This reaction, in the form of the Scott test, is a common presumptive test for cocaine hydro-chloride. The known cobalt compound, [K2Co(NCS)4]·3H2O, has a deep-blue coloration due to the tetra-hedral [Co(NCS)4]2- that is also present in the ion pair with bulky amines, and is similar to the color of other tetra-hedral cobalt(II) complex ions, such as [CoCl4]2-. The structure is consistent with a previous proposal that a hydro-phobic ion pair formed between [Co(NCS)4]2- and two protonated mol-ecules of cocaine is responsible for the blue hydro-phobic products formed by cocaine in the Scott test.
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