“…Therefore, derivation of AMA is commonly adopted before it is analyzed by HPLC, gas chromatography, capillary electrophoresis, potentiometry, and fluorometry. Several derivatizing reagents have been intensively studied for HPLC analysis of AMA, including o-phthalaldehyde and 1-thio-β-D-glucose, 11 (2-naphthoxy) acetyl chloride, 12 anthraquinone-2-sulfonyl chloride, 13 dansyl chloride, 14 1-fluoro-2,4-dinitrobenzene, 15 and 4-fluoro-7-nitro-2,1,3-benzoxadiazole (NBD-F). 16 Among those, NBD-F selectively reacts with the primary and secondary amino groups and has been successfully used for the analyses of many compounds.…”