An anthracene-appended 2:3 copillar[5]arene: synthesis, computational studies, and application in highly selective fluorescence sensing for Fe(III) ions

Peifa Wei; Debing Li; Bingbing Shi; Qi Wang; Feihe Huang

doi:10.1039/c5cc06682d

An anthracene-appended 2:3 copillar[5]arene: synthesis, computational studies, and application in highly selective fluorescence sensing for Fe(III) ions

Chem Commun (Camb). 2015 Oct 21;51(82):15169-72. doi: 10.1039/c5cc06682d. Epub 2015 Sep 1.

Authors

Peifa Wei¹, Debing Li, Bingbing Shi, Qi Wang, Feihe Huang

Affiliation

¹ State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, Department of Chemistry, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, P. R. China. fhuang@zju.edu.cn.

PMID: 26325260
DOI: 10.1039/c5cc06682d

Abstract

Herein an anthracene-appended 2:3 copillar[5]arene was prepared by the CuAAC method, which was further used as a Fe(3+)-selective fluorescent chemosensor over a wide range of metal ions.