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The Detection of Food Additives Using a Fluorescence Indicator Based on 6- p-Toluidinylnaphthalence-2-sulfonate and
Qunpeng Duan1, Yibo Xing1, Kainan Guo1
1School of Chemical and Printing-dyeing Engineering, Henan University of Engineering, Zhengzhou, China.
Abstract:
The current study investigated host-guest complexation in 6-p-toluidinylnaphthalene-2-sulfonate (TNS), a fluorescence probe used to investigate hydrophobic regions that contain the water-soluble cationic pillar[6]arene (CP6). After complexation with CP6, the fluorescence intensity of TNS was significantly increased. The decreases in the fluorescence intensity of the TNS•CP6 complex when phenolic food-additives are added have been used in indicator displacement assays to detect food additives in the water.

