Kim Sook Kyung, Singh N Jiten, Kim Soo Jeong, Kim Heon Gon, Kim Jung Kyung, Lee Jung Woo, Kim Kwang S, Yoon Juyoung
Department of Chemistry, Ewha Womans University, 11-1 Daehyon-Dong, Sodaemun-Ku, Seoul 120-750, Korea.
Org Lett. 2003 Jun 12;5(12):2083-6. doi: 10.1021/ol034498w.
[structure: see text] The fluorescent chemosensor 1 bearing two imidazolium groups at the 1,8-position of anthracene has been designed for the recognition of anions through the (C-H)(+)- - -X(-) hydrogen bond formation. As unique tweezer-like binding of 1 with anions is predicted by the ab initio calculations, strong anion-binding properties of chemosensor 1 are demonstrated by using fluorescence as well as (1)H NMR.