Elucidating sensing mechanisms of a pyrene excimer-based calix[4]arene for ratiometric detection of Hg(<scp>ii</scp>) and Ag(<scp>i</scp>) and chemosensor behaviour as INHIBITION or IMPLICATION logic gates
Julio Rodríguez-Lavado, A. Lorente, Erick Flores, Andrés Ochoa, Fernando Godoy, Pablo Jaque, Claudio Saitz
Abstract
This article reports the synthesis and characterisation of two lower rim calix[4]arene derivatives with thiourea as spacer and pyrene or methylene-pyrene as fluorophore.
Topics & Concepts
ChemistryExcimerPyreneCalixareneBenzo(a)pyreneMedicinal chemistryCombinatorial chemistryStereochemistryFluorescenceOrganic chemistryMoleculeQuantum mechanicsPhysicsMolecular Sensors and Ion DetectionLuminescence and Fluorescent MaterialsSupramolecular Chemistry and Complexes