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A colorimetric and fluorescent chemosensor for the detection of an explosive--2,4,6-trinitrophenol (TNP)
Yu Peng1, Ai-Jiang Zhang, Ming Dong
1State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry, Key Laboratory of Nonferrous Metals Chemistry and Resources Utilization of Gansu Province and College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China. pengyu@lzu.edu.cn
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|March 10, 2011
Abstract:
A fluorescent and colorimetric receptor (L) for specific recognition of TNP was described. The origins of this remarkable affinity was disclosed by the crystal structure of corresponding host-guest complex L·TNP.
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