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Published on: August 19, 2013
Fluorescent discrimination between traces of chemical warfare agents and their mimics
Borja Díaz de Greñu1, Daniel Moreno, Tomás Torroba
1Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences, University of Burgos , 09001 Burgos, Spain.
Abstract:
An array of fluorogenic probes is able to discriminate between nerve agents, sarin, soman, tabun, VX and their mimics, in water or organic solvent, by qualitative fluorescence patterns and quantitative multivariate analysis, thus making the system suitable for the in-the-field detection of traces of chemical warfare agents as well as to differentiate between the real nerve agents and other related compounds.
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