RESEARCH
For the past few years we have been working on molecules that behave
as fluorescent switches with cation binding. Some of our work is
described in the following papers:
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"A Fluorescent Photoinduced Electron Transfer Sensor for Cations
with an Off-On-Off Proton Switch"
de Silva, S. A.; Zavaleta, A. (U); Baron, D. E. (U); Allam, O. (G); Isidor,
E. V. (U); Kashimura, N. (U); Percarpio, J. (U) Tetrahedron
Lett. 1997, 38, 2237
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“A fluorescent 'off-on-off' proton switch with an overriding 'enable-disable'
sodium ion switch”
de Silva, S. A.; Amorelli, B. (G); Isidor, D. C. (U); Loo, K. C. (U); Crooker,
K. C. (U); Pena, Y. E. (H) Chem. Commun. 2002, 1360
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"A Computational Study of a Fluorescent Photoinduced Electron Transfer
Sensor for Cations"
de Silva, S.A.; Kasner, M.L.; Whitener, M. A.; Pathirana, S. L. (U) Int.
J. of Quantum Chem. 2004, 100, 753
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“A fluorescent “off-on-off” proton switch derived from natural products
and further studies of fluorescent “off-on” and “on-off” proton switches”
de Silva, S. A.; Loo, K. C. (G); Amorelli, B. (G); Pathirana, S. L. (U);
Nyakirang’ani, M. (U); Dhramasena, M. (M); Demarais, S. (H); Dorcely, B.
(H); Pullay, P. (H);
Salih, Y. A. (H) J. Materials Chem. 2005, 15,
2791.
(G) Graduate student
(U) Undergraduate student
(H) High school student sponsored by the ACS
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