Zeng Lintao, Wang Pengfei, Zhang Hongyan, Zhuang Xiaoqing, Dai Qing, Liu Weimin
Key Laboratory of Photochemical Conversion and Optoelectronic Materials, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China.
Org Lett. 2009 Oct 1;11(19):4294-7. doi: 10.1021/ol901392p.
A new quinine derivative PQ, bearing pyrenyl as a fluorophore, was prepared to recognize heparin in aqueous solution. PQ exhibits good selectivity and sensitivity for heparin over other biological molecules. Upon binding with heparin, PQ shows a typical excimer emission peaked at 489 nm along with a weak monomer emission at 376 nm. Moreover, PQ also shows good performance to detect the heparin in serum.