A convenient conversion is described of thiourea-based receptors to fluorescent isothiouronium-based photoinduced electron transfer (PET) sensors for oxoanion sensing. Naphthalene-or anthracene-functionalized mono-isothiouroniums are synthesized from the corresponding thioureas, in which the fluorophore is connected to the sulfur atom of the thiourea moiety by a methylene or an ethylene spacer. Even though all of the ...
[MacHan, Charles W.; Spokoyny, Alexander M.; Jones, Matthew R.; Sarjeant, Amy A.; Stern, Charlotte L.; Mirkin, Chad A. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2011 , vol. 133, # 9 p. 3023 - 3033]