Strong fluorescence enhancement of 2-bromo-3-(1H-indol-3-yl)maleimide upon coordination to a Lewis-acidic metal complex

Başak Kükrer Kaletaş, René M. Williams, Burkhard König, Luisa De Cola

Chemical Communications · 2002 · 46 citations · 14 references

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Abstract

The emission intensity of an indolyl maleimide derivative increases approximately 80-fold by reversible coordination to (1,4,7,11-tetraazacyclododecane)zinc(II), which makes the system a promising new signalling motif for molecular sensors.

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