Molecular logic with a saccharide probe on the few-molecules level

Martin Elstner; Klaus Weisshart; Klaus Müllen; Alexander Schiller

doi:10.1021/ja303214r

Molecular logic with a saccharide probe on the few-molecules level

J Am Chem Soc. 2012 May 16;134(19):8098-100. doi: 10.1021/ja303214r. Epub 2012 May 4.

Authors

Martin Elstner¹, Klaus Weisshart, Klaus Müllen, Alexander Schiller

Affiliation

¹ Institute for Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Humboldtstrasse 8, 07743 Jena, Germany.

PMID: 22541028
DOI: 10.1021/ja303214r

Abstract

In this Communication we describe a two-component saccharide probe with logic capability. The combination of a boronic acid-appended viologen and perylene diimide was able to perform a complementary implication/not implication logic function. Fluorescence quenching and recovery with fructose was analyzed with fluorescence correlation spectroscopy on the level of a few molecules of the reporting dye.