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DALTON TRANSACTIONS
Volume -, Issue 18, Pages 3471-3479Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/b304172g
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Fluorescent sensors are molecular systems consisting of a receptor moiety and of a fluorogenic fragment, which are capable of recognising a given analyte and signalling recognition through a variation of the emission intensity. The fluorogenic fragment responsible of the signal can be associated to the receptor either covalently or noncovalently, giving rise to two well distinct classes of fluorosensors and sensing paradigms. The design of fluorescent sensors is described, with a special attention to the sensing of anionic groups (including those of amino acids). In any case, it seems convenient that the receptor moiety contains one or more metal centres, which establish strong coordinative interactions with the envisaged anionic substrate. Selectivity is related to the energy of the metalanalyte interaction and can be achieved by taking profit of the concepts developed in more than one hundred years of coordination chemistry. As an example, recognition and sensing of the amino acid histidine is considered in detail, which is based on the attitude of the imidazole residue to deprotonate and bridge two M-II ions prepositioned at the right distance, within a defined coordinative framework (M = Cu, Zn).
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