A. Ori et S. Shinkai, ELECTROCHEMICAL DETECTION OF SACCHARIDES BY THE REDOX CYCLE OF A CHIRAL FERROCENYLBORONIC ACID-DERIVATIVE - A NOVEL METHOD FOR SUGAR SENSING, Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications, (17), 1995, pp. 1771-1772
A chiral ferrocenylboronic acid 1 bearing an intramolecular tertiary a
mine binds saccharides at ca. pH 7, the complexation event, which can
be Conveniently detected by an electrochemical method, shows chiral di
scrimination. for certain linear saccharides.