Determination of Levo-Rotatory Leucine by a Fluorescent Probe

Abstract

With a certain concentration of Michaelis buffer solution (pH 6.1), and in the presence of CTMAB, the fluorescence intensity of fluorescein, which is quenched by Pd 2+ , can be enhanced after adding a certain content of L-leucine. Thereby, we establish a fluorescence spectrometry method to detect the content of L-leucine, the added amount of which is proportional to the fluorescence enhancement. When the excitation slit width is 3 nm and the emission slit width is 5 nm, we obtain the following results: correlation coefficient R = 0.9981, linear range 0.125–1.375 mg/l, and detection limit 0.00028 mg/l.