Duxia Cao

TL;DR: This comprehensive and critical review of coumarin-based small-molecule fluorescent chemosensors during the period of 2012-2018 may facilitate the development of more powerful fluorescent chemOSensors for broad and exciting applications in the future.

TL;DR: The synthesis, structure, and fluorescence properties of a series of new donor- pi-acceptor (D-pi-A) type compounds, with a trivalent boron, protected by two mesityl groups, as acceptor, and with various typical donors and different pi-conjugated bridges, are reported.

TL;DR: Three new A- pi-A-type compounds with trivalent boron, protected by two mesityl groups, as electron acceptor have been synthesized and investigated together with their two diphenylamino-ended D-pi-D analogues.

TL;DR: Nonconjugated polymer dots (N-PDs) are synthesized by amidation reaction between polyethyleneimine and citric acid, then self-assemble into rice-like dots in aqueous phase with a high fluorescence quantum yield, and can be used as an excellent fluorescent probe to detect Cu2+ and ClO- in aQueous solutions.

TL;DR: A family of two-photon fluorescence compounds based on the aurone skeleton were developed as efficient LDs imaging probes that possess low toxicity to living cells, high photobleaching resistance and superior photostability and can light up LDs with high specificity.