Redox-active compounds and their use

US6057120A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Roche Diagnostics GMBH · DE

Inventors

• Dieter Heindl · Munich, DE
• Rupert Herrmann · Weilheim, DE
• Joachim Hones · Zwingenberg, DE
• Hans-Peter Josel · Weilheim, DE
• Martina Junius-Comer · Iffeldorf, DE
• Hartmut Merdes · Heidelberg, DE
• Axel Schmidt · Munich, DE
• Ernst Selbertinger · Burghausen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 22, 1997
• Grant date: May 2, 2000
• Expiry date: Sep 22, 2017

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S435/968
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

The invention concerns the use of redox-active compounds for the production of detection reagents for a method for the determination of an analyte as well as reagent kits that contain these redox-active compounds. In addition new redox-active compounds are disclosed.