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Real-time Monitoring of Ligand-receptor Interactions with Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer
Published on: August 20, 2012
Acene-linked conjugated polymers with ratiometric fluorescent response to 1O2
Jingjing Zhang1, Syena Sarrafpour, Robert H Pawle
1Tufts University Department of Chemistry, 62 Talbot Avenue, Medford, MA 02155, USA.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|February 9, 2011
Abstract:
This communication describes new conjugated polymers that bear diarylanthracene or diaryltetracene pendants and respond to singlet oxygen by interrupting energy transfer resulting in blue-shifted fluorescence.
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