Chemosensors of Ion and Molecule Recognition

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxiii

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2. Modification of Cyclodextrins to Control their Guest-Host Chemistry and their Applications as Chemosensors

   • John H. T. Luong

   Pages 1-16

3. New Fluorescent Readouts for Protein Interactions, Gene Expression, and Membrane Potential

   • Roger Y. Tsien

   Pages 17-21

4. Chemical Sensors Based on Field Effect Transistors; Selective Recognition of Cations and Anions

   • Martijn M. G. Antonisse, Ronny J. W. Lugtenberg, Richard J. M. Egberink, Johan F. J. Engbersen, David N. Reinhoudt

   Pages 23-35

5. Aqueous Sugar Sensing by Boronic-Acid-Based Artificial Receptors

   • Seiji Shinkai

   Pages 37-59

6. Solid State Supramolecular Optical Sensors

   • Otto S. Wolfbeis, Christian Huber, Tobias Werner

   Pages 61-74

7. Fluorescent Chemosensors which Take Profit from the Metal-Ligand Interaction

   • L. Fabbrizzi, G. Francese, M. Licchelli, P. Pallavicini, A. Perotti, A. Poggi et al.

   Pages 75-90

8. Recognition, Transduction and Immobilisation — a Holistic Approach to Sensor Development

   • Dermot Diamond, Teresa Grady, Shane O’Neill, Paddy Kane

   Pages 91-104

9. Signal Transduction in Chemosensors of Modified Cyclodextrins

   • Akihiko Ueno, Hiroshi Ikeda, Juan Wang

   Pages 105-119

10. Hydrogen Bonding Chemosensors for Metabolites and Nucleotides

    • Thomas W. Bell, Zheng Hou

    Pages 121-132

11. New Approaches to Sensory Materials: Molecular Recognition in Conjugated Polymers

    • Timothy M. Swager

    Pages 133-141

12. Higher Generation Luminescent Pet (Photoinduced Electron Transfer) Sensors

    • A. Prasanna De Silva, H. Q. Nimal Gunaratne, Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson, Allen J. M. Huxley, Jude T. Rademacher, Terence E. Rice

    Pages 143-157

13. Chemosensing of Monocyclic and Bicyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons by Supramolecular Active Sites

    • W. K. Hartmann, M. A. Mortellaro, D. G. Nocera, Z. Pikramenou

    Pages 159-176

14. Squaraine-Based Long Wavelength Fluorescent Chemosensors for Ions

    • Engin U. Akkaya

    Pages 177-188

15. A Fluorescent Chemosensor with Selectivity for Hg(II)

    • J. Yoon, N. E. Ohler, D. H. Vance, W. D. Aumiller, A. W. Czarnik

    Pages 189-194

16. Cation-Responsive Fluorescent Sensors

    • B. Valeur, F. Badaoui, E. Bardez, J. Bourson, P. Boutin, A. Chatelain et al.

    Pages 195-220

17. Fluorescent, Siderophore-Based Hydroxamate Chelators for the Detection of Transition-Metal Ions

    • F. Fages

    Pages 221-240

18. Back Matter

    Pages 241-245

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In the broad field of supramolecular chemistry, the design and hence the use of chemosensors for ion and molecule recognition have developed at an extroardinary rate. This imaginative and creative area which involves the interface of different disciplines, e.g. organic and inorganic chemistry, physical chemistry, biology, medicine, environmental science, is not only fundamental in nature. It is also clear that progress is most rewarding for several new sensor applications deriving from the specific signal delivered by the analyte-probe interaction. Indeed, if calcium sensing in real time for biological purposes is actually possible, owing to the emergence of efficient fluorescent receptors, other elements can also be specifically detected, identified and finally titrated using tailored chemosensors. Pollutants such as heavy metals or radionuclides are among the main targets since their detection and removal could be envisioned at very low concentrations with, in addition, sensors displaying specific and strong complexing abilities. Besides, various species of biological interest (or others, the list is large) including sugars and other micellaneous molecules such as oxygen and carbon dioxide can be actually probed with optodes and similar devices. The present volume in which the key lectures of the workshop are collected gives a survey of the main developments in the field. The success of the workshop mainly came from the high quality of the lectures, the invited short talks, the two posters sessions and the many very lively discussions which without doubt will produce positive outcomes.

• Titration
• chemistry
• medicine
• organic chemistry
• supramolecular chemistry

• Laboratoire de Photochimie Organique, Université Bordeaux I, Talence, France

  J. P. Desvergne

• Irori Quantum Microchemistry, La Jolla, USA

  A. W. Czarnik

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