title: An easy assembled fluorescent sensor for dicarboxylates and acidic amino acids.
abstract: Two mesitylene based neutral receptors 1 and 2 bearing two thiourea binding sites were constructed as fluorescent probes for sensing dicarboxylates. Their binding affinities toward dicarboxylates, aspartate and glutamate have been investigated in acetonitrile solution by fluorescence titration experiments. Both fluorescent sensors exhibited some ability to discriminate the antipodal forms of aspartate and glutamate.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong SAR, China.
authors.forename: Xiao-Bo
authors.initials: XB
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: Yuk-Wang
authors.initials: YW
authors.lastname: Yip
authors.forename: Wing-Hong
authors.initials: WH
authors.lastname: Chan
authors.forename: Albert W M
authors.initials: AW
authors.lastname: Lee