H. Murakami et al., SUGAR SENSING UTILIZING AGGREGATION PROPERTIES OF A BORONIC-ACID-APPENDED PORPHYRIN, Tetrahedron letters, 34(39), 1993, pp. 6273-6276
It was shown that monosaccharides can be sensitively detected utilizin
g aggregation properties of a boronic-acid-appended porphyrin. Since t
he magnitude of the spectral change is correlated with the association
tendency between sugars and boronic acids, the origin of the spectral
change is related to the increase in the hydrophilicity in the sugar-
binding site.