A method is presented for the chromatographic separation and subsequent colorimetric measurement of chlorocholine chloride (CCC) at residue levels in wheat grain and plants at various stages of growth. Chlorocholine chloride is removed from tissue background by adsorption chromatography on aluminum oxide, and measured colorimetrically as a dipicrylamine-chlorocholine chloride complex at 415 mg. The average recoveries of CCC from wheat grain, green wheat foliage, and corresponding wheat straw were 76, 86.4, and 90%, respectively, with average control values of 0.10, 0.16, and 0.27 p.p.m. A rate-of-disappearance study at a treatment level of 4 pounds of CCC per acre of wheat showed a biological half life for CCC of 13 days.
Gycocel[chlorocholine chloride (CCC), 2-chloroethyl trimethylammonium chloride] is a plant growth regulant. The physiological and economic importance Dipicrylamine Reagent (2,2 ',4,4',6, (Eastman Chemical Co.). Prepare a 0.01 % solution in purified methylene chloride.Aluminum Oxide. Fisher Scientific Co., Catalog No. A-540, adsorption alumina for chromatographic analysis.Amberlite LA-2 Liquid Anion Exchange Resin (Rohm and Haas Co., Philadelphia, Pa.). Prepare a 10% solution in carbon tetrachloride.Cycocel (2-Chloroethyl Trimethyl ammonium Chloride) Standard (American Cyanamid Co., Princeton, N. J.). Prepare standard solutions in methanol containing 10 and 1.0 µg. of CCC per ml. of solution.