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An Evaluation of the Effect of Incorporating Metal Salts Into 1,8 diazafluoren-9-one (DFO) Formulations for Fingermark Enhancement

An Evaluation of the Effect of Incorporating Metal Salts Into 1,8 diazafluoren-9-one (DFO) Formulations for Fingermark Enhancement

Kelly Mayse, Vaughn G Sears, Niko Nicolasora, Stephen Bleay

Sci Justice. 2019 May;59(3):349-358.

PMID: 31054824

Abstract:

A study into the modification of 1,8-diazafluoren-9-one (DFO) formulations by the additions of metal salts into the working solution is reported. Similar additions have been found to increase the fluorescence of marks developed using other amino acid reagents including 1,2-indandione and the ninhydrin analogue 5-methylthioninhydrin. It was found that adding zinc chloride to give a 1:1 ratio of zinc ions:DFO molecules gave optimum fluorescence, and improvements in performance over the standard DFO formulation were achieved. Attempts to produce equivalent formulations with iron, nickel and palladium chlorides were unsuccessful. In a comparative trial with a 1,2-indandione-zinc formulation on brown paper and cardboard substrates, 1,2-indandione-zinc gave superior results and it was decided to focus further research on this reagent instead of DFO-zinc.

Chemicals Related in the Paper:

Catalog Number	Product Name	Structure	CAS Number	Price
AP54078294	1,8-Diazafluoren-9-one		54078-29-4	Price

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