In a continuing study of the effect of exposure of chloroquine and its salt derivatives to the sun, the picrate was investigated. The picrate gives a sharp endothermic effect of melting at 209.2 °C, before it decomposes, to give an exothermic peak at 255.6 °C. The endothermic peak of melting at 209.2 °C was found suitable for the quantitative determination of chloroquine picrate in sun-exposed samples.