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SOME human subjects have been shown to excrete large amounts of urinary resorcinol monosulphate ester1. This appears on paper chromatograms as a magenta spot after spraying with 2 per centp-dimethylaminobenz-aldehyde in 5 per cent v/v concentrated hydrochloric acid and heating at 55° C for 12–15 min. (The sensitivity of resorcinol sulphate to this reagent at room temperature is much lower and the resultant colour is grey.) The spot runs rather more slowly than indoxyl sulphate in iso-propanol–0.880 ammonia–water ; 20 : 1 : 2 (RF 0.50, 0.60 respectively), and also in n-butanol–acetic acid–water; 12 : 3 : 5 (RF 0.42, 0.46).
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CURZON, G., PRATT, R. Origin of Urinary Resorcinol Sulphate. Nature 204, 383–384 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/204383a0
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