P. Roveri et al., THIN-LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY OF ALIPHATIC THIOLS AFTER FLUORESCENT LABELING WITH METHYL 4-(6-METHOXYNAPHTHALEN-2-YL)-4-OXO-2-BUTENOATE, Journal of liquid chromatography, 16(8), 1993, pp. 1859-1866
Aliphatic thiols of biopharmaceutical (cysteine,N-acetylcysteine, homo
cysteine,captopril,glutathione,mercaptop ropionylglycine) and cosmetic
(thioglycolic acid, monothioglycerol,ammonium thiolactate) interest r
eact under mild reaction conditions (10 min at room temperature) with
methyl 4-(6-methoxynaphthalen-2-yl)-4-oxo-2-butenoate to give fluoresc
ent adducts which can be separated on TLC silica gel plates. The fluor
escent spots are visualized on irradiation at 254 and 366 nm.