Mehmet Gokhan Caglayan, Sara Sheykhi, Lorenzo Mosca and Pavel Anzenbacher, Jr.
Chem. Commun., 2016,52, 8279-8282
DOI:
10.1039/C6CC03640F,
Communication
Recognition of electroneutral Lewis bases and anions in aqueous media is extremely difficult. We show that fluorescent coordinatively unsaturated metal complexes can recognize various Lewis bases while providing an easy-to-detect fluorescence response. This approach is applied to the detection of adrafinil, a banned performance-enhancing drug.