“…The most common derivatizing reagents used with the aminoglycoside antibiotics are o-phthaldialdehyde (OPA) with thioglycolic acid (TGA) for UV-detection [16 18], or 2-mercaptoethanol (ME) [19,20] for fluorescence detection. In other applications 2,4-dinitrofluorobenzene (DNFB) [11 13, 21] and reagents such as 2,4,6-trinitrobenzene sulfonic acid (TNBS) [22], dansyl chloride [23], 9-fluorenylmethyl chloroformate (FMOC) [24], and 1-methoxycarb onylindolizine-3,5-dicarbaldehyde [25] have been used.…”