“…Crokaert (1) described a color reaction between 3-alanine, one of the hydrolytic cleavage products of pantothenic acid, and 1,2n aphthoquinone-4-sodium sulfonate, while Szalkowski, Mader, and Frediani (9) reacted 3-alanine with 2,4-dinitrophenylhydrazine and determined colorimetrically the precipitated hydrazone in pyridine. Hestrin (6) suggested that the color reaction for esters and lactones, described by Feigl et al (4), might be utilized for a quantitative procedure. This reaction had previously been used by Lipmann and Tuttle (7) for the determination of acyl phosphates.…”