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A fluorescent probe capable of detecting H2S at submicromolar concentrations in cells
Weimin Xuan1, Rong Pan, Yanting Cao
1Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, University of New Mexico, MSC03 2060, Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001, USA.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|September 27, 2012
Abstract:
A new internal charge transfer (ICT) fluorescent probe for highly selective and sensitive monitoring of H(2)S has been developed. The design takes advantage of the facile reduction of non-fluorescent hydroxyamine naphthalimide by H(2)S to highly fluorescent amine naphthalimide. It has been demonstrated that the probe is able to detect H(2)S at submicromolar concentrations in cells.
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