Yang Hong, Zhou Zhiguo, Huang Kewei, Yu Mengxiao, Li Fuyou, Yi Tao, Huang Chunhui
Department of Chemistry & Laboratory of Advanced Materials, Fudan University, Shanghai, People's Republic of China.
Org Lett. 2007 Nov 8;9(23):4729-32. doi: 10.1021/ol7020143. Epub 2007 Oct 16.
A new multisignaling sensor based on rhodamine B with a ferrocene substituent (1) has been synthesized and has been shown to display extreme selectivity for Hg2+ over other metal ions. Multisignaling changes are observed through UV/vis absorption, fluorescence emission, and electrochemical measurements. Furthermore, by means of confocal laser scanning microscopy experiments, it is demonstrated that 1 can be used as a fluorescent probe for monitoring Hg2+ in living cells.