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Rational Design of a Fluorescent Hydrogen Peroxide Probe Based on the Umbelliferone Fluorophore
Lupei Du1, Minyong Li, Shilong Zheng
1Department of Chemistry and Center for Biotechnology and Drug Design, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30302-4098, USA.
Tetrahedron Letters
|December 17, 2008
Abstract:
In this study, we report a novel water-soluble umbelliferone-based fluorescent probe for hydrogen peroxide. This probe shows very large increases (up to 100 fold) in fluorescent intensity upon reaction with hydrogen peroxide, and good selectivity over other reactive oxygen species (ROS).

