“…To date, numerous reducing compounds, such as NADH, hydrazine, oxalate, aliphatic amines, amino acids, and ascorbic acid, can be determined based on this mechanism. Chen and Wang [6,7] also studied the reaction pathway for aliphatic acids and alcohols. Although most phenolic compounds are reductive, to our knowledge there is noreport about the detection of phenolic compounds by use of their reaction with Ru(bpy) 3 3+ .…”