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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 133, Issue 8, Pages 2556-2566Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ja108028m
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- U.S. National Science Foundation [CHE-0616577, CHE-0911092]
- National Institutes of Health [R01 CA120792]
- Division Of Chemistry
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [0911092] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Mercury is a major threat to the environment and to human health. It is highly desirable to develop a user-friendly kit for on-site mercury detection. Such a method must be able to detect mercury below the threshold levels for drinking water, 1-2 ppb. We developed a fluorescence method based on the oxymercuration of vinyl ethers to detect mercury in dental and environmental samples. Chloride ions interfered with the oxymercuration reaction, but the addition of AgNO3 solved this problem. Fine electronic and structural tuning led to the development of a more responsive probe that was less sensitive to chloride ion interference. This second-generation probe could detect 1 ppb mercury ions in water.
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