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Fluorogenic dansyl-ligated gold nanoparticles for the detection of sulfur mustard by displacement assay
Richard C Knighton1, Mark R Sambrook, Jack C Vincent
1Chemistry Research Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3TA, UK.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|February 15, 2013
Abstract:
The dansyl fluorophore ligated to gold nanoparticles via imidazole and amine groups affords conjugates capable of detecting micromolar concentrations of the chemical warfare agent sulfur mustard by a fluorescence switching 'ON' displacement assay.
