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Chem. Commun., 47 (19), 5199-5201, 2011
DOI: 10.1039/C1CC11081K
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An organometallic derivative of a BAPTA ligand: towards electrochemically controlled cation release in biocompatible media |
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Koyel X. Bhattacharyya, Leïla Boubekeur-Lecaque, Issa Tapsoba, Emmanuel Maisonhaute, Bernd Schöllhorn and Christian Amatore
Department of Chemistry, UMR8640 CNRS-ENS-UPMC, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Université Pierre et Marie Curie Paris 06, 24 rue Lhomond, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France - Laboratoire Interfaces et Systêmes Electrochimiques, UPR 15 du CNRS, Université Pierre et Marie Curie Paris 06, Case Courrier no. 133, 4 place Jussieu, 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France - Laboratoire d’Electrochimie Moléculaire, UMR CNRS 7591, Université Paris Diderot, 15 rue Jean-Antoine de Baïf, 75205 Paris Cedex 13, France
The combination of a ferrocenyl moiety with BAPTA provides a novel, water-soluble, redox-active chelator. This chelator behaving as a conformational sensor exhibits an unexpected electrochemical response with high affinity and selectivity for calcium. |