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A Highly Selective Reaction‐Based Two‐Photon Probe for Copper(I) in Aqueous Media
Author(s) -
Maity Debabrata,
Sarkar Bidyut,
Maiti Sudipta,
Govindaraju T.
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
chempluschem
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.801
H-Index - 61
ISSN - 2192-6506
DOI - 10.1002/cplu.201300089
Subject(s) - chemistry , aqueous medium , copper , aqueous solution , ether , bond cleavage , combinatorial chemistry , ion , photochemistry , nanotechnology , organic chemistry , catalysis , materials science
Out of the blue : A reaction‐based two‐photon probe XanCu (see scheme) is reported for the selective detection of Cu + in reducing aqueous environments. Copper(I)‐mediated oxidative benzylic ether (CO) bond cleavage offers “switch‐on” detection of the metal ion.