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Change of pH indicator's pKa value via molecular imprinting
Chengdu Liang1, Michael J Weaver, Sheng Dai
1Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, P.O. Box 2008, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|August 13, 2002
Abstract:
The pKa value of the indicator is significantly changed up to several orders of magnitude by the imprinting synthesis; this fine-tuning of the reactivity for pH indicators via the imprinting synthesis may find novel applications in fabricating pH sensors with tailored pKa values.