Fluorescence sensor applications as detectors for DNA damage, free radical formation, and in microlithography*
J. C. Scaiano, C. Aliaga, M. N. Chrétien, M. Frenette, K. S. Focsaneanu, and L. Mikelsons
Department of Chemistry, University of Ottawa, 10 Marie Curie, Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5, Canada
Abstract: Fluorescence sensors have been developed to monitor radical reactions, DNA damage, acid-catalyzed processes, detection of electron-deficient molecules, and zeolite applications. The examples presented emphasize applications in polymer and supramolecular systems.
Keywords: photochemistry; fluorescence; sensors; free radicals; DNA damage; lithography; pyrene.
*Paper based on a presentation at the XXth IUPAC Symposium on Photochemistry, Granada, Spain, 17-22 July 2004. Other presentations are published in this issue, pp. 925-1085.