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Published on: June 10, 2021
The phenanthroimidazole-based dizinc(II) complex as a fluorescent probe for the pyrophosphate ion as generated in
Sellamuthu Anbu1, Subban Kamalraj, Anup Paul
1Centro de Química Estrutural, Complexo I, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1049-001 Lisboa, Portugal. bioinorg_anbu@yahoo.com pombeiro@tecnico.ulisboa.pt.
Abstract:
A highly selective and sensitive phenanthroimidazole tagged Mannich base type dizinc(II) fluorescent probe (R-Zn²⁺) has been developed for the pyrophosphate ion (PPi) with a very low limit of detection (LOD) of 0.25 ppm; this also assesses PPi from DNA polymerization chain reaction (PCR).
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