A naphthoimidazolium-cholesterol derivative as a ratiometric fluorescence based chemosensor for the chiral recognition of carboxylates

Autor: Gyeongju Ko, Songyi Lee, Juyoung Yoon, Dayoung Lee, Xin Zhang, Yifan Liu, Meng Li, Sungnam Park, Joonyoung F. Joung, Tony D. James, K.M.K. Swamy, Yerin Jeong
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Chemical communications (Cambridge, England). 54(94)
ISSN: 1364-548X
Popis: Fluorescent chemosensors for sensing chiral molecules have been actively studied in recent years. In the current study, we report a naphthoimidazolium-cholesterol derivative (NI-chol 1) as a fluorescence based chemosensor for chiral recognition, in which the naphthoimidazolium serves not only as a fluorophore but also as a recognition moiety for anions via imidazolium (C-H)+-anion binding and the cholesterol unit acts as a chiral barrier. In particular, NI-chol 1 displayed unique and distinct ratiometric changes with Boc-d-Phe, on the other hand, Boc-l-Phe induced a negligible change. Furthermore, a distinct downfield shift (from 9.64 ppm to 9.96 ppm) of the imidazolium C-H peak was observed for Boc-d-Phe (5 eq.) with severe broadening, which indicates strong ionic hydrogen bonding between the C-H proton and the carboxylate.
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