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Chemical Communications

Tunable star-shaped triphenylamine fluorophores for fluorescence quenching detection and identification of nitro-aromatic explosives†

Nakorn Niamnont,ab   Nattaporn Kimpitak,a   Kanet Wongravee,a   Paitoon Rashatasakhon,a   Kim K. Baldridge,c   Jay S. Siegel*c  and  Mongkol Sukwattanasinitt*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Organic Synthesis Research Unit, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University and Nanotec-CU Center of Excellence on Food and Agriculture, Bangkok 10330, Thailand
E-mail: smongkol@chula.ac.th
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Tel: +66 2 2187620

b Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi, Bangkok 10140, Thailand

c Organic Chemistry Institute, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, Zurich, Switzerland
E-mail: jss@oci.uzh.ch
Fax: +41 44 635 6888
Tel: +41 44 635 4201

Abstract

Triphenylamine-based fluorophores containing pyrene or corannulene show variable fluorescence quenching sensitivity toward nitro explosives. The most sensitive fluorophore is capable of detecting TNT on the ng cm−2 scale; the array is useful for identifying nitro aromatics.

Graphical abstract: Tunable star-shaped triphenylamine fluorophores for fluorescence quenching detection and identification of nitro-aromatic explosives

  • This article is part of the themed collection: Aromaticity
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C2CC34008A
Article type
Communication
Submitted
05 Jun 2012
Accepted
04 Dec 2012
First published
06 Dec 2012

Chem. Commun., 2013,49, 780-782

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Tunable star-shaped triphenylamine fluorophores for fluorescence quenching detection and identification of nitro-aromatic explosives

N. Niamnont, N. Kimpitak, K. Wongravee, P. Rashatasakhon, K. K. Baldridge, J. S. Siegel and M. Sukwattanasinitt, Chem. Commun., 2013, 49, 780 DOI: 10.1039/C2CC34008A

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