The mechanism of this detection reaction from Robert William Fearon, Dublin, on maltose and lactose is not yet well understood. There ist a nice salmon-red colour, which is propably the same as in the Woehlk-Reaction Copenhagen 1904 and Umikoff's reaktion St. Petersburg 1898.

It migth start with lactamine / maltamine, but what is the chemical formula of the red product?

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