Saliya A. de Silva

Fluorescent signalling crown ethers; ‘switching on’ of fluorescence by alkali metal ion recognition and binding in situ

A. Prasanna de Silva, Saliya A. de Silva · Journal of the Chemical Society Chemical Communications · 1986 · 259 citations

Natural Sciences, Chemistry, Spectroscopy +6

A fluorescent photoinduced electron transfer sensor for cations with an off-on-off proton switch

Saliya A. de Silva, Andrés Zavaleta, David Baron et al. · Tetrahedron Letters · 1997 · 169 citations

Natural Sciences, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry +14

Photo-induced electron transfer as a general design logic for fluorescent molecular sensors for cations

A. J. Bryan, A.Prasanna de Silva, Saliya A. de Silva et al. · Biosensors · 1989 · 156 citations

Natural Sciences, Chemistry, Materials Science +16

Luminescence and charge transfer. Part 2. Aminomethyl anthracene derivatives as fluorescent PET (photoinduced electron transfer) sensors for protons

Richard A. Bissell, Emilio Calle, A. Prasanna de Silva et al. · Journal of the Chemical Society Perkin Transactions 2 · 1992 · 114 citations

Natural Sciences, Biochemistry, Chemistry +17

A fluorescent ‘off-on-off’ proton switch with an overriding ‘enable-disable’ sodium ion switch

Saliya A. de Silva, Benjamin Amorelli, David C. Isidor et al. · Chemical Communications · 2002 · 69 citations

Natural Sciences, Biophysics, Chemistry +14