Dalton Transactions Pub Date : 07/12/2013 00:00:00 , DOI:10.1039/C3DT51591E
Abstract
A new rhodamine based chemosensor, cyano-rhodamine, has been designed and synthesized with a green approach which shows a specific ‘C–CN’ bond breaking with the action of the Pd2+ ion to produce the specific color and fluorescence of rhodamine 6G itself in solution and in HeLa cells.