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Iridium(III) Luminescent Probe for Detection of the Malarial Protein Biomarker Histidine Rich Protein-II
Published on: July 7, 2015
Highly selective fluorescent recognition of histidine by a crown ether-terpyridine-Zn(II) sensor
Jiao Du1, Zeng Huang, Xiao-Qi Yu
1Key Laboratory of Green Chemistry and Technology, Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610064, China.
Abstract:
A Zn(II) complex was found to exhibit greatly enhanced fluorescence in the presence of histidine but not in the presence of any other amino acids including cysteine. This sensor could also distinguish histidine from other imidazole derivatives.

