S. Kurosawa et al., DETECTION OF MUTAGENIC POLYCYCLIC COMPOUNDS USING A PIEZOELECTRIC QUARTZ-CRYSTAL COATED WITH PLASMA-POLYMERIZED PHTHALOCYANINE DERIVATIVES, Analytica chimica acta, 337(1), 1997, pp. 1-3
Many polycyclic compounds such as the products of amino acid pyrolysis
are mutagens. We devised a system for selective detection of these co
mpounds in solution, based on a piezoelectric quartz crystal coated wi
th plasma-polymerized Fe phthalocyanine or Fe tetraphenylporphine film
s.