Date of Award
5-2015
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Science (MS)
College/School
College of Science and Mathematics
Department/Program
Chemistry and Biochemistry
Thesis Sponsor/Dissertation Chair/Project Chair
Saliya A. de Silva
Committee Member
John L. Isidor
Committee Member
David P. Rotella
Abstract
A large number of fluorescent sensors for cations that use a photoinduced electron transfer (PET) process to signal cation binding have been developed over the past three decades.1 The PET process of some of these sensors depends on having a tertiary nitrogen atom as a part of the receptor for cations. While these sensors work well as cation sensors, they also generate a fluorescent signal due to protonation of these receptors. The goal of this project is to design a fluorescent sensor that uses the same cation receptors but would not generate a signal for protons. Our new sensor has an additional PET pathway that is triggered when the tertiary nitrogen of the receptor is protonated.
File Format
Recommended Citation
Gomez, Lesly C., "Novel Fluorescent Sensors for Cations with Additional PET Pathways to Suppress Signals from Protons" (2015). Theses, Dissertations and Culminating Projects. 423.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/etd/423