Chemical Communications Pub Date : 06/12/2009 00:00:00 , DOI:10.1039/B907386H
Abstract
A hypersensitive water-soluble fluorescent probe, dansyl-L-tryptophan methyl ester (1), was easily prepared for the detection of Hg2+ with a significantly improved detection limit (5 nM vs. 500 nM) in buffered aqueous solution.
