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Synthesis And Study Of New Materials For The Visual Detection Of Biomolecules, Ming He
Synthesis And Study Of New Materials For The Visual Detection Of Biomolecules, Ming He
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
The visual determination of saccharides has been of interest for well over a century. Sugars are a relatively challenging class of compounds to analyze. They exhibit great structural similarity as well as transparency in the visible region. The sensing of specific saccharides could aid the monitoring of disease or industrial fermentation products. Herein I present new methods allowing for simple and rapid visual detection of sialic acid, fructose and a homologous series of prototypical neutral oligosaccharides, the linear maltodextrins, containing up to seven glucose residues. The new methods allow for selective color detection of fructose in a large excess of …