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Unusual fluorescein prototropism within aqueous acidic 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate solution
Maroof Ali1, Vinod Kumar, Siddharth Pandey
1Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110016, India.
Abstract:
Fluorescence emission of the cationic form of fluorescein is observed from dilute aqueous acidic solutions in the presence of ionic liquid 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate which is otherwise observed only from aqueous solutions of very high acidity.

