Organic letters

Efficient discovery of fluorescent chemosensors based on a biarylpyridine scaffold

SA Malashikhin, KK Baldridge, NS Finney

Index: Fang, Albert G.; Mello, Jesse V.; Finney, Nathaniel S. Organic Letters, 2003 , vol. 5, # 7 p. 967 - 970

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Abstract

The discovery of several fluorescent chemosensors for Hg (II) and Ag (I) in mixed aqueous solution is reported. The ease with which these fluorionophores were prepared from a common core underscores the utility of conformational restriction as a signaling mechanism.