Patent 7851225 was granted and assigned to Sensors for Medicine and Science on December, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Compounds having enhanced oxidation stability are disclosed. The compounds have an aryl boronic acid residue having one or more electron withdrawing groups on the aromatic moiety which contains the boronic acid residue, such that the molecule has enhanced oxidation resistance as compared to a corresponding molecule without the one or more electron withdrawing groups.