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Tracking silver delivery to bacteria using turn-on fluorescence
Miguel N Pinto1, Indranil Chakraborty1, Wiley Schultz-Simonton1
1Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA. pradip@ucsc.edu.
Abstract:
Herein we present a novel silver complex [Ag(qBODIPY)(CF3SO3)] (1) that exhibits dramatic increase in fluorescence upon silver release. Complex 1 has a minimum inhibitory concentration comparable to that of silver nitrate. Confocal microscopy was used to track the delivery of silver to bacterial targets.

