Selective and sensitive “turn-on” fluorescent Zn2+ sensors based on di- and tripyrrins with readily modulated emission wavelengths

Yubin Ding; Yongshu Xie; Xin Li; Jonathan P. Hill; Weibing Zhang; Weihong Zhu

doi:10.1039/C1CC11493J

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Selective and sensitive “turn-on” fluorescent Zn²⁺ sensors based on di- and tripyrrins with readily modulated emission wavelengths†

Yubin Ding,^a Yongshu Xie,*^a Xin Li,^a Jonathan P. Hill,*^b Weibing Zhang^a and Weihong Zhu^a

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^a Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials and Institute of Fine Chemicals, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, P. R. China
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^b WPI-Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Namiki 1-1, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

Abstract

Di- and tripyrrin sensors D1–D4 exhibit CHEF-type fluorescence enhancement by factors up to 72 upon addition of 1 equiv. Zn²⁺, with tunable emission colours between green (D1) and red (D4).

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/C1CC11493J
Article type: Communication
Submitted: 15 Mar 2011
Accepted: 24 Mar 2011
First published: 11 Apr 2011

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Chem. Commun., 2011,47, 5431-5433

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Selective and sensitive “turn-on” fluorescent Zn²⁺ sensors based on di- and tripyrrins with readily modulated emission wavelengths

Y. Ding, Y. Xie, X. Li, J. P. Hill, W. Zhang and W. Zhu, Chem. Commun., 2011, 47, 5431 DOI: 10.1039/C1CC11493J

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