A new phenanthrene based chemosensor has been synthesized and investigated to act as highly selective fluorescence and visual sensor for Cu 2 + ion with very low detection limit of 1.58 nM; this has also been used to image Cu 2 + in human cervical HeLa cancer cells. © 2012 Elsevier B.V.

Shanmugaraju Sankarasekaran

Department of Chemistry

S. Anbu

R. Ravishankaran

A.A. Karande

P.S. Mukherjee

Indian Institute of Technology Palakkad&nbsp;(IIT Palakkad or IIT PKD) is a public autonomous&nbsp;engineering&nbsp;and&nbsp;research&nbsp;institute located in&nbsp;Palakkad,&nbsp;Kerala. It was&nbsp;one of the five new&nbsp;IITs&nbsp;proposed in the&nbsp;2014 Union budget of India. The campus was inaugurated on 3 August 2015. The institute has 94 faculty, 978 students, and 63 non-teaching staffs.

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Inorganic Chemistry Communications

A phenanthrene based highly selective fluorogenic and visual sensor for Cu 2 + ion with nanomolar detection limit and its application in live cell imaging

Journal	Inorganic Chemistry Communications
Publisher	ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
ISSN	13877003
Open Access	No