A stimuli-responsive fluorescence platform for simultaneous determination of d-isoascorbic acid and Tartaric acid based on Maillard reaction product

An activatable fluorescence monitoring platform based on a novel Maillard reaction product from d -glucose and L-arginine was prepared through a facile one-pot approach and applied for simultaneous detection of d -isoascorbic acid and tartaric acid . In this work, the new Maillard reaction product GLA was first obtained, and its fluorescence intensity can be effectively quenched by KMnO 4 , resulting from a new complex (GLA-KMnO 4 ) formation between GLA and KMnO 4 . Upon addition of d -isoascorbic acid or tartaric acid, an enhanced fluorescence was observed under the optimumed experimental conditions, indicating a stimuli-responsive fluorescence turn on platform for d -isoascorbic acid or tartaric acid can be developed. The corresponding experimental results showed that this turn on fluorescence sensing platform has a high sensitivity for d -isoascorbic acid or tartaric acid, because the detection limits were 5.9   μM and 21.5   μM, respectively. Additionally, this proposed sensing platform was applied to simultaneously detection of d -isoascorbic acid and tartaric acid in real tap water samples with satisfactory results.