1983 Volume 32 Issue 4 Pages E93-E100
A spectrofluorometric method for determination of common epoxides based on a fluorescence reaction of the epoxy group with nicotinamide and acetophenone is described. By the method, as little as 10ng order of five aliphatic epoxides could be determined with a coefficient of variation of ca. 3 to 5%.
The analysis of the reaction product showed that the fluorophore had a 2, 7-naphthyridine structure.