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Qualitative Identification of Carboxylic Acids, Boronic Acids, and Amines Using Cruciform Fluorophores
Published on: August 19, 2013
Aldehyde detection by chromogenic/fluorogenic oxime bond fragmentation
Syed Salahuddin1, Olivier Renaudet, Jean-Louis Reymond
1Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Bern, Freiestrasse 3, 3012 Bern, Switzerland.
Abstract:
Amination of 4-nitrophenol, umbelliferone and 4-methylumbelliferone gave the corresponding oxyamines 1-3. These oxyamines react with aldehydes and ketones to form oximes. In the case of aliphatic aldehydes and electron-poor aromatic aldehydes, the oximes undergo base-catalyzed fragmentation in aqueous buffer in the presence of bovine serum albumin to give the parent phenols, which is the acyclic analog of Kemp's elimination reaction of 5-nitrobenzisoxazole 28. The process can be used as a spectrophotometric assay for formaldehyde under aqueous neutral conditions.
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