The microenvironment (local environment), including viscosity, temperature, polarity,
hypoxia, and acidic-basic status (pH), plays indispensable roles in cellular processes …

The homeostasis of acid/base and alkali metal played critical roles in life process. To get
insight into their functional mechanism, a large amount of detectors, especially based on …

Spiropyrans are a class of photochromic compounds that feature two main isoforms, a
closed spiropyran (SP) and an open merocyanine (MC), which are inter-switchable with UV …

Benzothiazole-based fluorescent probes are formed by decorating benzothiazole
fluorophore with a small chemical fragment capable of detecting a particular biological …

Intracellular pH plays an important role in many biological and pathological processes.
Small‐molecule based pH probes are found to be the most effective for pH sensing because …

Indoline spiropyrans containing conjugated cationic vinyl-3H-indolium fragment and their
analogues with formyl substituent in the 2H-chromene moiety were synthesized by a simple …

Lithium is a potent mood stabilizer and has unusual clinical, pharmacological, and
biochemical properties. Therefore, it is of great significance to develop fluorescent probes to …

An alternative process of Pd-catalyzed C-4 selective coupling of 2, 4-dichloropyridines with
boronic esters was developed, which afforded 24 examples of C-4 coupled pyridines in …

A new spiropyran bearing multiple phenolic hydroxyl groups is synthesized. It acts as a
chemosensor for selective detection of Fe 3+ ions in both organic and aqueous solution. The …

Carboxylesterases (CEs) are involved in biotransformation of numerous drugs,
environmental toxicants, and carcinogens containing ester groups. Abnormal CEs levels are …