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Xu-Dong Gao1,2, Yue Hu1, Wei-Feng Wang1
1CAS Key Laboratory of Chemistry of Northwestern Plant Resources, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Lanzhou 730000, People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
Ribose plays an important role in the process of life. Excessive ribose in the human cerebrospinal fluid or urine can be used as an early diagnostic marker of leukoencephalopathy. Fluorinated phenylboronic acid combined with 19F NMR spectroscopy was a powerful method for molecular recognition. However, phenylboronic acid-based sensors for selective detection of ribose are rarely reported in the literature. In this study, the rapid and highly selective recognition of ribose was studied by 19F NMR and 2-fluorophenylboric acid. It was found that 2-fluoro-phenylboric acid was an appropriate 19F NMR-based sensor molecule for the determination of ribose under physiological conditions with high selectivity and robust anti-interference ability. When 2-fluorophenylboric acid was used for the detection of ribose in human urine without any sample pretreatment, a limit of detection of 78 μM was obtained at room temperature under given 19F NMR experimental conditions (400 MHz, 512 scans, ca. 12 min), which can well meet the needs of practical application.
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