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A Polyaniline-based Sensor of Nucleic Acids
Published on: November 1, 2016
Rigid hydrophilic structures for improved properties of conjugated polymers and nitrotyrosine sensing in water
Brett VanVeller1, Koji Miki, Timothy M Swager
1Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.
Organic Letters
|March 3, 2010
Abstract:
The efficient synthesis of a hydrophilic monomer bearing a three-dimensional noncompliant array of hydroxyl groups is described that prevents water-driven excimer features of hydrophobic poly(p-phenylene ethynylene) backbones. Sensitivity of the polymer to 3-nitrotyrosine is also discussed.

