Electrochemical detection of saccharides by the redox cycle of a chiral ferrocenylboronic acid derivative: a novel method for sugar sensing

A Ori, S Shinkai

Index: Ori, Aiichiro; Shinkai, Seiji Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications, 1995 , # 17 p. 1771 - 1772

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Abstract

Boronic acids can form cyclic esters with diols rapidly and reversibly in basic aqueous solution. It has been shown that the boronic acid-diol interaction is very useful as a potential method to touch sugars and selectively recognize them.1 In certain fluorescent boronic acids the fluorescence intensity is sensitively affected by the complexation event and the fluores- cence change is readily applicable to practical sugar sensing.2 The finding suggests that the ...