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Synthesis Of Boronic Acid Based Sensors For Glucose And Sialic Acid And Synthesis Of Novel And Selective Pde4 Enzyme Inhibitors, Gurpreet Kaur

Chemistry Dissertations

The boronic acid functional group is known to bind compounds with the diol group tightly and reversibly in aqueous environment and has been used as a recognition moiety for the design of carbohydrate sensors. The first chapter of the dissertation studies the synthesis and substitution effect on the affinity and selectivity of a known boronic acid-based glucose sensor. In such a sensor design effort, the availability of a signaling event, whether it is fluorescence or UV, is crucial. The second chapter studies the detailed mechanism on how a well-known fluorescent boronic acid compound changes fluorescent properties upon binding. A new …