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An Anaerobic Biosensor Assay for the Detection of Mercury and Cadmium
Published on: December 17, 2018
An easily prepared hypersensitive water-soluble fluorescent probe for mercury(II) ions
Hong-Wei Li1, Yue Li, Yong-Qiang Dang
1State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials, Jilin University, No. 2699, Qianjin Street, Changchun, 130012, China.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|July 15, 2009
Abstract:
A hypersensitive water-soluble fluorescent probe, dansyl-L-tryptophan methyl ester (1), was easily prepared for the detection of Hg(2+) with a significantly improved detection limit (5 nM vs. 500 nM) in buffered aqueous solution.
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