White to off-white crystalline powder
4-Nitrophenyl α-L-arabinopyranoside may be used: as a 4-nitrophenyl-glycoside substrate to study the substrate activities of TlAbf51 by determining the arabinofuranosidase (Abf) activity in standard conditions. It may also be used to determine the activity of α-L-arabinofuranosidase spectrophotometrically.
ChEBI: 4-nitrophenyl alpha-L-arabinoside is an alpha-L-arabinopyranoside having a 4-nitrophenyl substituent at the anomeric position It has a role as a chromogenic compound. It is an alpha-L-arabinopyranoside and a C-nitro compound. It is functionally related to a 4-nitrophenol.