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SUBMITTER: Engle JM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4284647 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
CrystEngComm 20140101 18
A fluorescent macrocyclic anion receptor based on the 2,6-bis(2-anilinoethynyl)pyridine scaffold has been synthesized to investigate the mechanism of fluorescence quenching in this class of compounds. X-ray crystallography reveals that the binding pocket of the receptor is a natural host to both H<sub>2</sub>O and HCl, accommodating either molecule in nearly identical environments. Our studies show that protonation, not collisional quenching, is responsible for the observed fluorescence quenchin ...[more]