An easy assembled fluorescent sensor for dicarboxylates and acidic amino acids

• Xiao-bo Zhou,
• Yuk-Wang Yip,
• Wing-Hong Chan and
• Albert W. M. Lee

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 75–81, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.11

• . Keywords: amino acids; dicarboxylate ion recognition; enantioselectivity; mesitylene scaffold; Introduction The recognition and sensing of anionic substrates by positively charged or electrically neutral synthetic receptive molecular systems has emerged as a key research area because of the fundamental