Frontiers in Chemistry (May 2022)

The Detection of Food Additives Using a Fluorescence Indicator Based on 6– p–Toluidinylnaphthalence-2-sulfonate and Cationic Pillar[6]arene

  • Qunpeng Duan,
  • Yibo Xing,
  • Kainan Guo

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3389/fchem.2022.925881
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10

Abstract

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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.

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