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Hua Lu1, Zhaoli Xue, John Mack
1State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry, Nanjing National Laboratory of Microstructures, Nanjing University, Nanjing, 210093, PR China.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|April 16, 2010
Abstract:
A BODIPY derivative with an -NH(2) and -OH substituted meso-phenyl group is reported, which, under biological conditions, exhibits metal-induced J-aggregation in the presence of Cu(2+) and a specific fluorescence enhancement for Hg(2+).
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