In 2019,Spectrochimica Acta, Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy included an article by Liu, Ji-lin; Xu, Chun-ling; Yang, Ting; Hu, Zhi-ru; Zhang, Zhi-quan; Feng, Guo-dong. Reference of Ethyl 4-bromobutyrate. The article was titled 《Developed a novel sensor based on fluorescent graft conjugated polymer for the determination of aristolochic acid in traditional Chinese medicine》. The information in the text is summarized as follows:
A novel fluorescent graft conjugated polymer (poly (2, 5-bis (Polyethylene glycol oxybutyrate)-1, 4-phenylethynylene-alt-1, 4-phenyleneethynylene, PPE-OB-PEG)) has been designed and synthesized for the determination of aristolochic acid (AA). The detection conditions and detection characters of PPE-OB-PEG were systematically explored in this work. The fluorescence intensity of PPE-OB-PEG changes with the different concentration of AA. PPE-OB-PEG has a good linear range towards AA from 1.00×10-7 to 8.00×10-5 mol L-1 and the limit of detection (LOD) is 3.00×10-8 mol L-1 (S/N = 3). PPE-OB-PEG have been applied to detect AA in traditional Chinese medicine samples and the results are satisfactory. The exptl. results show that PPE-OB-PEG can be used as a fluorescence probe for rapid and sensitive detection of AA. In addition to this study using Ethyl 4-bromobutyrate, there are many other studies that have used Ethyl 4-bromobutyrate(cas: 2969-81-5Reference of Ethyl 4-bromobutyrate) was used in this study.
Ethyl 4-bromobutyrate(cas: 2969-81-5) belongs to bromides. Most organobromine compounds, like most organohalide compounds, are relatively nonpolar. Bromine is more electronegative than carbon (2.9 vs 2.5). Consequently, the carbon in a carbon–bromine bond is electrophilic, i.e. alkyl bromides are alkylating agents.Reference of Ethyl 4-bromobutyrate
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