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Qualitative Identification of Carboxylic Acids, Boronic Acids, and Amines Using Cruciform Fluorophores
Published on: August 19, 2013
Detection of boronic acid derivatives in cells using a fluorescent sensor
Yoshihide Hattori1, Miki Ishimura, Youichirou Ohta
1Research Center of Boron Neutron Capture Therapy, Research Organization for the 21st Century, Osaka Prefecture University, 1-1 Gakuen-cho, Nakaku, Sakai, Japan. y0shi_hattori@riast.osakafu-u.ac.jp.
Abstract:
The detection of boron-containing compounds requires very expensive facilities and/or tedious sample pretreatments. In an effort to develop a convenient detection method for boronic acid derivatives, boron chelating-ligands were synthesized for use as fluorescent sensors. In this paper, the synthesis and properties of fluorescent sensors for boronic acid derivatives are reported.
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