Avigad G
J Chromatogr. 1977 Sep 21;139(2):343-7. doi: 10.1016/s0021-9673(00)89330-9.
Reducing sugars, particularly aldoses, react readily with dansyl hydrazine. The fluorescent hydrazones produced can be separated by thin-layer chromatography and determined quantitatively by spectrofluorimetry after elution from the chromatograms.