Biomedical applications of calixarenes: state of the art and perspectives

YC Pan, XY Hu, DS Guo - Angewandte Chemie International …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Calixarenes (CAs), representing the third generation of supramolecular hosts and one of the
most widely studied macrocyclic scaffolds, offer (almost) unlimited structure and application …

Fluorescent dyes and their supramolecular host/guest complexes with macrocycles in aqueous solution

RN Dsouza, U Pischel, WM Nau - Chemical reviews, 2011 - ACS Publications
The fluorescence of organic molecules depends sensitively on their environment.
Fluorescent dyes have accordingly become popular molecular probes not only to determine …

Dynamically analyte-responsive macrocyclic host–fluorophore systems

G Ghale, WM Nau - Accounts of Chemical Research, 2014 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Host–guest chemistry commenced to a large degree with the work of Pedersen,
who in 1967 first reported the synthesis of crown ethers. The past 45 years have witnessed a …

Chemical sensing of neurotransmitters

T Pradhan, HS Jung, JH Jang, TW Kim… - Chemical Society …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
In the past few decades, the development of chemosensors for neurotransmitters has
emerged as a research area of significant importance, which attracted a tremendous amount …

Host–guest sensing by calixarenes on the surfaces

HJ Kim, MH Lee, L Mutihac, J Vicens… - Chemical Society …, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
The present critical review reports on recent developments of optical nanoparticles based on
the association of gold, silver, silica and quantum dots and calixarenes. These hybrid …

Operational calixarene-based fluorescent sensing systems for choline and acetylcholine and their application to enzymatic reactions

DS Guo, VD Uzunova, X Su, Y Liu, WM Nau - Chemical Science, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
Electron-rich anionic calixarenes and resorcinarenes are known receptors for
trimethylammonium-containing neurotransmitters, but the development of practical sensor …

Enzyme mimics of Au/Ag nanoparticles for fluorescent detection of acetylcholine

CI Wang, WT Chen, HT Chang - Analytical chemistry, 2012 - ACS Publications
We have developed a highly sensitive and selective fluorescent assay for the detection of
acetylcholine (ACh) based on enzyme mimics of Au/Ag nanoparticles (NPs). These NPs …

Facile preparation of Fe3O4 nanospheres/reduced graphene oxide nanocomposites with high peroxidase-like activity for sensitive and selective colorimetric detection …

J Qian, X Yang, L Jiang, C Zhu, H Mao… - Sensors and Actuators B …, 2014 - Elsevier
Fe 3 O 4 nanospheres/reduced graphene oxide (Fe 3 O 4 NSs/rGO) nanocomposites (NCs)
with well-dispersed and dense coverage of Fe 3 O 4 NSs have been synthesized by a …

Photoluminescent C-dots@ RGO probe for sensitive and selective detection of acetylcholine

CI Wang, AP Periasamy, HT Chang - Analytical chemistry, 2013 - ACS Publications
We have developed a sensitive and selective photoluminescence (PL) quenching assay for
the detection of acetylcholine (ACh) that uses reduced graphene oxide decorated with …

Supramolecularly assisted modulations in chromophoric properties and their possible applications: an overview

M Sayed, H Pal - Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
In this article our aim is to review the supramolecularly assisted modulations in the
properties of the organic chromophoric dyes, on their interactions with the macrocyclic host …