Complexes immobilized mixed-ligand complex

Ruthenium complexes with mixed bipyridyl ligands, immobilized inside a Nation film, may also be used as pH-sensitive sensor layers [90]. A completely different approach for a ratiometric imaging of pH sensor foils was developed for diagenetic studies of marine sediments, using the dual fluorescence excitation ratio of the pH-sensitive fluorophore 8-hydroxypyrene-l,3,6-trisulfonic acid (HPTS) [91]. Commonly used dual fluorophors with different absorption and emission maxima in the protonated and basic form for ratiometric measurements are the naphthofluorescein and seminaphthofluorescein derivates (SNARF and SNAFL) [92], It should be noted that ammonia or carbon dioxide can also be detected by some of these pH-sensitive materials [55,93]. 

Polycarboxylate crown ethers such as (205) are suitable ligands for potentiometric studies of mixed-metal complexes of Al3+ and alkali or alkaline-earth cations.303 A similar (+)-18-crown-6-tetracarboxylic acid, chemically immobilized on a chiral stationary phase (CSP), can selectively recognize both enantiomers of some analytes.304 Calixarene polycarboxylates such as (206) and (207) are useful ligands toward alkali-305,306 and also transition-metal ions,307 308 with applications in... 

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