Probing biologically and environmentally important metal ions with fluorescent chemosensors: Thermodynamic versus optical response selectivity in some study cases

The reciprocal influence of the thermodynamic (binding) selectivity and the sensing (optical response) selectivity of fluorescent chemosensors in determining their efficiency in probing biologically and environmentally important metal ions in real matrices will be discussed on the basis of some study cases from the work of the authors. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.