Abstract
In the past decade, fluorescent chemosensors for zinc ion (Zn2+) have attracted great attention because of the biological significance of zinc combined with the simplicity and high sensitivity of fluorescence assays. Chemosensors can be divided into a fluorophore, a spacer and a receptor unit; the receptor is the central processing unit (CPU) of a chemosensor. This tutorial review will classify zinc chemosensors based on receptor types.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1996-2006 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Journal | Chemical Society Reviews |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue number | 6 |
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| State | Published - 25 May 2010 |