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An easy assembled fluorescent sensor for dicarboxylates and acidic amino acids.

ABSTRACT: Two mesitylene based neutral receptors 1 and 2 bearing two thiourea binding sites were constructed as fluorescent probes for sensing dicarboxylates. Their binding affinities toward dicarboxylates, aspartate and glutamate have been investigated in acetonitrile solution by fluorescence titration experiments. Both fluorescent sensors exhibited some ability to discriminate the antipodal forms of aspartate and glutamate.

SUBMITTER: Zhou XB

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3028595 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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An easy assembled fluorescent sensor for dicarboxylates and acidic amino acids.

Zhou Xiao-Bo XB Yip Yuk-Wang YW Chan Wing-Hong WH Lee Albert W M AW

Beilstein journal of organic chemistry 20110117

Two mesitylene based neutral receptors 1 and 2 bearing two thiourea binding sites were constructed as fluorescent probes for sensing dicarboxylates. Their binding affinities toward dicarboxylates, aspartate and glutamate have been investigated in acetonitrile solution by fluorescence titration experiments. Both fluorescent sensors exhibited some ability to discriminate the antipodal forms of aspartate and glutamate. ...[more]

PMID: 21286397

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