Abstract

ELECTION INK: MECHANISM BASED REACTION IN THE PLAYGROUND OF FUNCTIONAL GROUPS OF CHEMISTRY ON BIOCHEMISTRY

*Limbesh B. Aal, Jignesh N. Parmar, Vishvesh R. Patel and Prof. Dr. Dhrubo Jyoti Sen

ABSTRACT

Nothing in this world which is free from chemistry. Chemistry plays in all substances either it may living or non-living. All chemicals are made of some functional groups either may be ionic or non-ionic which plays in the playground of chemistry. In case of election procedure this chemistry also plays a nice role in staining in finger tips by the reaction of silver nitrate on the melanin pigment of skin to produce stain which lasts for several days so that no chance of duplicity of multiple voting by single person in malpractice. Macromolecule melanin of skin pigment reacts instantly with silver nitrate of ink. Tyrosine and glutamine amino acids of melanin react with silver ion in presence of ultraviolet rays of sunlight to produce zwitter-ion which is responsible for production of silver nanoparticles at a time. Tyrosine having phenolic functional group which is oxidized to quinonoid form and releases silver nanoparticles which produce coloured stains on skin of finger.

Keywords: Voting, Election ink, Stain, Melanin, Tyrosine, Glutamine, Zwitter-ion, Silver nanoparticles.