A hemicyanine-based "turn-on" fluorescent probe for the selective detection of Cu2+ ions and imaging in living cells

Bai Li1, Jiejian Kou, Huihui Mei

  • 1Henan Engineering Research Center of Industrial Recirculating Water Treatment, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Henan University, Kaifeng, Henan 475004, P. R. China. xukx@henu.edu.cn.