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Fluorescent probe for monosaccharides based on a functionalized boron-dipyrromethene with a boronic acid group
Nicolas DiCesare1, Joseph R Lakowicz1
1Center for Fluorescence Spectroscopy, University of Maryland, School of Medicine, 725 W. Lombard St., Baltimore, MD 21201, USA.
Tetrahedron Letters
|December 18, 2019
Abstract:
A new highly fluorescent probe based on a boron-dipyrromethene functionalized with a phenylboronic acid group was synthesized from 2,4-dimethylpyrrol and 4-formylphenylboronic acid. Spectral changes in both absorption and emission spectra were observed in the presence of sugars.

