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Pseudorotaxane capped mesoporous silica nanoparticles for 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) detection in water
Beatriz Lozano-Torres1, Lluís Pascual1, Andrea Bernardos1
1Instituto Interuniversitario de Investigación de Reconocimiento Molecular y Desarrollo Tecnológico (IDM). Universitat Politécnica de Valencia, Universitat de Valencia, Spain and Departamento de Química, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Camino de Vera s/n, 46022, Valencia, Spain. rmaez@qim.upv.es fsanceno@upvnet.upv.es and CIBER de Bioingeniería, Biomateriales y Nanomedicina (CIBER-BBN), Spain.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|March 14, 2017
Abstract:
Mesoporous silica nanoparticles loaded with fluorescein and capped by a pseudorotaxane, formed between a naphthalene derivative and cyclobis(paraquat-p-phenylene) (CBPQT4+), were used for the selective and sensitive fluorogenic detection of 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA).