“…Few native peptides contain a fluorophore, which can be excited by lasers, therefore for a CE-LIF detection system the analyte should be usually derivatized with a fluorescent probe. A series of derivatizing agents, such as fluorescamine [2,3], o-phthaldialdehyde (OPA) [4][5][6], naphthalene-2,3-dicarboxyaldehyde (NDA) [7][8][9], fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC) [10,11], 3-(4-carboxybenzoyl)-2-quinoline-carboxaldehyde (CBQCA) [9,12,13], and tetramethylrhodamine (TRITC) [14] have been used as fluorescent probes for amino acids and peptides. Some reports [11,13,15,16] have focused on derivatization, separation, and detection of amino acids by CE-LIF.…”