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Published on: August 19, 2013
Fluorescent detection for cyclic and acyclic alcohol guests by naphthalene-appended amino-beta-cyclodextrins
Hironori Nakashima1, Noboru Yoshida
1Group of Molecular Materials Chemistry, Section of Environmental Materials Science, Faculty of Environmental Earth Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0810, Japan.
Abstract:
Spectroscopic and thermodynamic investigations on complexation of naphthalene-appended amino-beta-cyclodextrins 1 and 2 with cyclic alcohols (cyclohexanol and cycloheptanol) and acyclic alcohols (1-pentanol, 2-pentanol, 1-hexanol, and 1-heptanol) have been carried out. Host 1 exhibits a drastic fluorescent enhanced-signal change in the presence of alcohol guests in aqueous solution. [structure: see text]
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