A Convenient Colorimetric Test for Aliphatic Azides

Sreenivas Punna; M. G. Finn

doi:10.1055/s-2003-43375

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A Convenient Colorimetric Test for Aliphatic Azides

Sreenivas Punna, M. G. Finn*
Department of Chemistry and The Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 N. Torrey Pines Rd., La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
Fax: +1(858)7848850; e-Mail: mgfinn@scripps.edu;

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Aliphatic azides are readily detected in solution or with high sensitivity on solid-phase supports by treatment with triphenylphosphine, water, and the standard components of the ninhydrin test for amines.

Key words

azides - ninhydrin - spot test - colorimetric test

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