Issue 44, 2011
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Chemical Communications

A simple “molecular beacon”-based fluorescent sensing strategy for sensitive and selective detection of mercury (ii)†

Huifeng Xu,ab   Xi Zhu,b   Hongzhi Ye,a   Lishuang Yu,ab   Xianxiang Liu*a  and  Guonan Chen*b  

* Corresponding authors

a Academy of Integrative Medicine, Fujian University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Fuzhou, Fujian, P. R. China
E-mail: liuxianxiang@163.com

b Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Analysis and Detection for Food Safety, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory of Analysis and Detection for Food Safety, Department of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, Fujian 350002, P. R. China
E-mail: gnchen@fzu.edu.cn

Abstract

A novel fluorescent sensor for the detection of Hg2+ in aqueous media was developed. The method takes advantages of the highly selective thymine–Hg2+–thymine coordination and the sensitive “signal-on” structure-switching molecular beacon.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C1CC14265H
Article type
Communication
Submitted
15 Jul 2011
Accepted
21 Sep 2011
First published
10 Oct 2011

Chem. Commun., 2011,47, 12158-12160

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A simple “molecular beacon”-based fluorescent sensing strategy for sensitive and selective detection of mercury (II)

H. Xu, X. Zhu, H. Ye, L. Yu, X. Liu and G. Chen, Chem. Commun., 2011, 47, 12158 DOI: 10.1039/C1CC14265H

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