A sensitive and highly selective fluorescent sensor for In(3+)

Yan-Chao Wu; Hui-Jing Li; Hua-Zheng Yang

doi:10.1039/c0ob00002g

A sensitive and highly selective fluorescent sensor for In(3+)

Org Biomol Chem. 2010 Aug 7;8(15):3394-7. doi: 10.1039/c0ob00002g. Epub 2010 Jun 16.

Authors

Yan-Chao Wu¹, Hui-Jing Li, Hua-Zheng Yang

Affiliation

¹ State Key Laboratory of Element-Organic Chemistry, Institute of Element-Organic Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China. [email protected]

PMID: 20556276
DOI: 10.1039/c0ob00002g

Abstract

A simple neutral fluorescent sensor based on pyrazolo[1,5-a]pyrimidine exhibited a unique selectivity for indium(iii) ion (In(3+)) over various other metal ions with dramatic fluorescence response in acetonitrile.