Photoactive pyrene-containing receptors for transition-metal ions*
Frédéric Fages,** Stéphanie Leroy, Tirapattur
Soujanya, and Jean-Ernest Sohna Sohna
Laboratoire de Chimie Organique et Organométallique,
UMR 5802 CNRS, Université Bordeaux 1, 351 Cours de La Libération,
33405 Talence Cedex, France
Abstract: Photoresponsive molecular receptors based on the photophysical
properties of the pyrene chromophore were designed to exhibit tunable
fluorescence emission upon binding of transition-metal ions.
*Lecture presented at the XVIIIth IUPAC Symposium on
Photochemistry, Dresden, German , 22-27 July 2000.Other presentations
are published in this issue, pp.395-548.
** Corresponding author