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Synthesis, Cellular Delivery and In vivo Application of Dendrimer-based pH Sensors
Published on: September 10, 2013
Multicomponent covalent dye assembly for tight binding and sensitive sensing of L-DOPA
Xuan-Xuan Chen1, Xin Wu, Peng Zhang
1Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, MOE Key Laboratory of Spectrochemical Analysis and Instrumentation, and Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials (iChEM), Xiamen University, Xiamen 361005, China. ybjiang@xmu.edu.cn.
Abstract:
A mixture of two simple perylene-containing receptors was found to bind bifunctional L-DOPA synergistically and tightly via orthogonal boronate ester and imine bond formation in neutral aqueous solutions, the resulting three-component assembly forming optically active long fibrous aggregates.

