Issue 55, 2013
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Chemical Communications

Development of a fluorescent sensor for an illicit date rape drug – GBL†

Duanting Zhai,a   Bikram Keshari Agrawalla,a   Pei Sze Fronia Eng,a   Sung-Chan Lee,b   Wang Xua  and  Young-Tae Chang*ab  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Chemistry and MedChem Program, Life Sciences Institute, National University of Singapore, 3 Science Drive 3, Singapore 117543
E-mail: chmcyt@nus.edu.sg

b Laboratory of Bioimaging Probe Development, Singapore Bioimaging Consortium (SBIC), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Biopolis, 11 Biopolis Way, #02-02 Helios, Singapore 138667

Abstract

The first fluorescent sensor for an illicit date rape drug, GBL, was developed and named Green Date. It shows high fluorescence enhancement to GBL and allows its detection in different drinks. The mechanism between GBL and Green Date was explored. This discovery may help to prevent the drug-facilitated sexual assault problems.

Graphical abstract: Development of a fluorescent sensor for an illicit date rape drug – GBL

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C3CC43153C
Article type
Communication
Submitted
29 Apr 2013
Accepted
22 May 2013
First published
22 May 2013
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

Chem. Commun., 2013,49, 6170-6172

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Development of a fluorescent sensor for an illicit date rape drug – GBL

D. Zhai, B. K. Agrawalla, P. S. F. Eng, S. Lee, W. Xu and Y. Chang, Chem. Commun., 2013, 49, 6170 DOI: 10.1039/C3CC43153C

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