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Highly Selective Fluorescent Recognition of Pyrophosphate in Water by a New Chemosensing Ensemble

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A new chemosensing ensemble that displays sensitive and selective fluorescent recognition of pyrophosphate in water at pH 7.4 has been developed. The ensemble is constructed by a copper complex (receptor) and eosin Y (indicator), the constructed ensemble is capable of highly selectively discriminate pyrophosphate from other common existing anions such as CH3COO−, HSO −4 , NO −3 , H2PO −4 , HPO 2−4 , PO 3−4 , NCS−, I−, Cl−, Br−, F−as well as some structurally similar carboxylates such as citrate, tartrate, oxalate, malonate, succinate and glutarate.

A new chemosensing ensemble that can effectively differentiate pyrophosphate from common existing anions and structurally similar carboxylate anions in 100% aqueous solution at physiological pH has been developed.

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    Lijun Tang, Minghui Liu & Fangfang Li

  2. Division of Nano Sciences, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, 120-750, South Korea

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Tang, L., Liu, M., Li, F. et al. Highly Selective Fluorescent Recognition of Pyrophosphate in Water by a New Chemosensing Ensemble. J Fluoresc 21, 701–705 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10895-010-0758-2

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