Selective Sensing of Iron by Pyrrolo[2,3-c]Quinolines.
Togiti Uday KumarShweta PawarAmit NagAnupam BhattacharyaPublished in: Journal of fluorescence (2019)
This paper reports development of an iron sensor, 2-(3H-pyrrolo[2,3-c]quinolin-4-yl)aniline (APQ). The fluorophore facilitates micromolar detection of Fe3+/Fe2+ in the presence of various cations, including well-known interfering cations Co2+and Cu2+ by the process of fluorescence quenching. Graphical Abstract.