Tetrahedron

A highly selective fluorescent turn-on probe for Al 3+ via Al 3+-promoted hydrolysis of ester

A Helal, SH Kim, HS Kim

Index: Helal, Aasif; Kim, Sang Hyun; Kim, Hong-Seok Tetrahedron, 2013 , vol. 69, # 30 p. 6095 - 6099

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Abstract

A new reactive and highly selective fluorescent chemosensor (1) based on thiazole was synthesized for the quantification of aluminum ions in ethanol. The mechanism of fluorescence was based on the aluminum-promoted hydrolysis of the ester moiety and subsequent complexation.