title: Metal ion sensing novel calix[4]crown fluoroionophore with a two-photon absorption property.
abstract: 1,3-Alternate calix[4]arene-based fluorescent chemosensors bearing two-photon absorbing chromophores have been synthesized, and their sensing behaviors toward metal ions were investigated via absorption band shifts as well as one- and two-photon fluorescence changes. Free ligands absorb the light at 461 nm and weakly emit their fluorescence at 600 nm when excited by UV-vis radiation at 461 nm, but no two-photon excited fluorescence is emitted by excitation at 780 nm. Addition of an Al(3+) or Pb(2+) ion to a solution of the ligand causes a blue-shifted absorption and enhanced fluorescence due to a declined resonance energy transfer (RET) upon excitation by one- and two-photon processes. Addition of a Pb(2+) ion to a solution of 1.K(+) results in a higher fluorescence intensity than the original 1.Pb(2+) complex regardless of one- or two-photon excitation, due to the allosteric effect induced by the complexation of K(+) with a crown loop.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Institute of Nanosensor & Biotechnology, Dankook University, Seoul 140-714, Korea. jongskim@dankook.ac.kr
authors.forename: Jong Seung
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Hyun Jung
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Hwan Myung
authors.initials: HM
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Su Ho
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Jeong Won
authors.initials: JW
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Sung Kuk
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Bong Rae
authors.initials: BR
authors.lastname: Cho
mesh_terms: D047250:Calixarenes / Q000737:chemistry*; D010636:Phenols / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D010636:Phenols; C121325:calix(4)arene; D047250:Calixarenes