title: New color chemosensors for monosaccharides based on azo dyes.
abstract: Sugar detection is important for many applications. New developments in sugar signaling would provide new technologies to monitor glucose and other sugars. Azo dye 1 presents a new way to build molecular color sensors for monosaccharides. The boronic acid group is used as chelator group for monosaccharides and linked directly in resonance with the aromatic dye. Dye 1 shows a color change, from orange to purple, in the presence of sugar at neutral pH. [structure: see text]
authors.affiliation: Center for Fluorescence Spectroscopy, School of Medicine, University of Maryland, 725 West Lombard Street, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: DiCesare
authors.forename: J R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Lakowicz
mesh_terms: D001391:Azo Compounds / Q000737:chemistry*; D003116:Color; D004396:Coloring Agents / Q000737:chemistry*; D009005:Monosaccharides / Q000032:analysis*
chemical_list: D001391:Azo Compounds; D004396:Coloring Agents; D009005:Monosaccharides