Due to the wide range of applications and biological significance, the development of optical
probes for silver, gold and platinum ions has been an active research area in the past few …

Besides the noble physical appearance of gold and silver, their novel chemical properties
attracted the modern technology for various industrial, chemical and biological uses …

Bis-pyrene derivative 1, bearing two pyrene and pyridine groups, was synthesized as a
ratiometric fluorescent chemosensor for Ag+ in aqueous solution. Fluorescent chemosensor …

A novel fluorescent chemosensor (TPA-2TH) containing triphenylamine (TPA) appended in
conjugation with 2-thiohydantoin (2TH) is developed and confirmed by various analytical …

Cholesterol appended diazine derivative 1 on a 4-hydroxybenzaldehyde scaffold has been
designed and synthesized. The compound having diazine as a metal ion binding site forms …

A new 1, 1′-thiobis (2-naphthoxy)-based receptor molecule (L) containing a benzimidazole
moiety has been synthesized and characterized by 1H NMR, ESI-MS, and elemental …

Several azine derivatives have been prepared and structurally characterized by
spectroscopic and single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis. Two of them, viz. naphthalene …

Nanoaggregates of benzothiazole-based amidines were prepared for study as sensors in
aqueous medium. Sensor N2 was found to behave as a selective primary sensor for Ag+ …

A new thiacalix [4] arene-cinnamaldehyde derivative 3, which undergoes red shift in the
fluorescence spectrum in the presence of Ag+ ions, has been synthesized. This emission …

Fluorescent reporters that literally “light up” upon binding of a target species are particularly
interesting from an analytical point of view. This contribution introduces the main signaling …