OFF-ON-OFF fluorescence switch with T-latch function

Vânia F Pais; Patricia Remón; Daniel Collado; Joakim Andréasson; Ezequiel Pérez-Inestrosa; Uwe Pischel

doi:10.1021/ol202312n

OFF-ON-OFF fluorescence switch with T-latch function

Org Lett. 2011 Oct 21;13(20):5572-5. doi: 10.1021/ol202312n. Epub 2011 Sep 20.

Authors

Vânia F Pais¹, Patricia Remón, Daniel Collado, Joakim Andréasson, Ezequiel Pérez-Inestrosa, Uwe Pischel

Affiliation

¹ Centro de Investigación en Química Sostenible (CIQSO) and Departamento de Ingeniería Química, Química Física y Química Orgánica, Universidad de Huelva, Campus de El Carmen, E-21071 Huelva, Spain.

Abstract

A novel molecular system with characteristics of an OFF-ON-OFF fluorescence switch was designed to integrate the function of a T-latch. In detail, a receptor(1)-fluorophore-receptor(2) architecture was adopted to achieve fluorescence switching upon addition of protons.