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Real-time Monitoring of Ligand-receptor Interactions with Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer
Published on: August 20, 2012
Click functionalized poly(p-phenylene ethynylene)s as highly selective and sensitive fluorescence turn-on
Yousef Pourghaz1, Prateek Dongare, David W Thompson
1Department of Chemistry, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, NL, Canada A1B 3X7.
Abstract:
Side-chain functionalized poly(p-phenylene ethynylene)s (PPEs) carrying triazole linkers, amino donors/receptors, and solubilizing groups have been found to yield remarkably high efficiency of fluorescence turn-on sensing for Zn(2+) and Cd(2+) ions in THF, and for H(+) and Cd(2+) ions in water.
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