Study of various substrates for peroxidase-coupled peroxide oxidations

It would appear from this study that the sodium sulfonates of 2, 4-dichloro- and 2, 4-dibromophenol when employed in the presence of 4-AAP produce useful and sensitive, colorimetric, cosubstrate systems. What may prove to be of equal importance is the relatively high initial rate of the coupling reactions, as it has been suggested (29, 30) that this might help alleviate interference by competitive proton donors.As long as the general structure of the phenols is maintained, increased aromaticity tends to add stability to the chromogen. This is, of course, an asset when performing equilibrium analysis.The use of MBTH, in the presence of either aromatic amines or alcohols, appears to have little obvious merit. Apart from the continual increase in absorbance of the blank, that is, a spontaneous coupling of the cosubstrates, as well as the comparatively high blank absorbance, this material does not seem to be as sensitive as some of the other reactions studied.