title: Fluorescence "turn on" chemosensors for Ag+ and Hg2+ based on tetraphenylethylene motif featuring adenine and thymine moieties.
abstract: Two new tetraphenylethylene (TPE) compounds 1 and 2 bearing adenine and thymine moieties, respectively, were found to be fluorescence "turn on" chemosensors for Ag(+) and Hg(2+) by making use of the AIE feature of TPE motif and the specific binding of adenine/thymine with Ag(+)/Hg(2+).
authors.affiliation: Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China.
authors.forename: Lei
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Guanxin
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Junfeng
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Xiang
authors.forename: Deqing
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Daoben
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Zhu
mesh_terms: D000225:Adenine / Q000737:chemistry*; D002412:Cations / Q000737:chemistry; D005030:Ethylenes / Q000737:chemistry*; D005456:Fluorescent Dyes / Q000737:chemistry*; D008628:Mercury / Q000737:chemistry*; D015394:Molecular Structure; D012834:Silver / Q000737:chemistry*; D013053:Spectrophotometry; D013941:Thymine / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D002412:Cations; D005030:Ethylenes; D005456:Fluorescent Dyes; D012834:Silver; C036216:ethylene; D008628:Mercury; D000225:Adenine; D013941:Thymine