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Synthesis of Near-Infrared Emitting Gold Nanoclusters for Biological Applications
Published on: March 22, 2020
Multivalent recognition of bis- and tris-Zn-porphyrins by N-methylimidazole functionalized gold nanoparticles
Gianluca Fantuzzi1, Paolo Pengo, Rosa Gomila
1Dipartimento di Chimica Organica and CNR ITM Sezione di Padova, Università di Padova, via Marzolo 1, 1-35131 Padova, Italy.
Abstract:
N-Methylimidazole-functionalized gold nanoparticles behave as multivalent ligands for porphyrin arrays with an increase in binding strength of up to three order of magnitude with respect to a monovalent system.

