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Ratiometric electrochemical detection of β-galactosidase
Sam A Spring1, Sean Goggins, Christopher G Frost
1Department of Chemistry, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK. s.goggins@bath.ac.uk.
Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry
|August 23, 2017
Abstract:
A novel ferrocene-based substrate for the ratiometric electrochemical detection of β-galactosidase was designed and synthesised. It was demonstrated to be an excellent electrochemical substrate for β-Gal detection with sensitivity as low as 0.1 U mL-1.

