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Published on: September 10, 2013
Glycoconjugated porphyrin dimers as robust ratiometric temperature sensors
Fabien Hammerer1, Guillaume Garcia, Pauline Charles
1Laboratoire de Chimie Bioorganique et Bioinorganique, Institut de Chimie Moléculaire et des Matériaux d'Orsay, Bât 410-420, Centre Universitaire, F-91405 Orsay cedex, France. fabien.hammerer@gmail.com.
Abstract:
We report the properties of glycoconjugated porphyrin dimers behaving as highly sensitive ratiometric temperature sensors in water. This effect results from interactions between carbohydrate and water altering molecular relaxation kinetics leading to temperature sensitive dual emission. These dimers are robust ratiometric fluorescent probes over a large temperature window (20-90 °C).
