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Niamh S Murray1, Suzi P Jarvis, Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson
1School of Chemistry, Centre for Synthesis and Chemical Biology, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland. gunnlaut@tcd.ie
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|August 12, 2009
Abstract:
The formation of a self-assembly between a sensitising antenna and an Eu(III) functionalised cyclen complex 1.Eu, tethered to a gold surface via a C(12) alkyl thiol spacer, is described where changes in the Eu(III) emission signal the formation, and dissociation, of a ternary complex.
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