Magnesium is an abundant element in the environment. Magnesium ion sensing by fluorescence spectral method is of importance due to the need for the detection of the metal in the human body and the environment. In this paper, we report the Mg2+ ion sensing behavior of the phenylhydrazone derivative of a difluorenylpiperidin-4-one. The preparation method of this compound is simple. The compound s...

In the course of work on the structure and configuration of streptamine (meso-l ,3-diamino-2,4,5,6-tetrahydroxycyclohexane) it seemed of interest to investigate the properties of the corresponding monoamino compounds (2,3 ,4,5,6-pentahydroxycyclohexylamines). We wish to propose the generic name inosamine for these amino analogues of inositol, since they are related to the inososes in the same w...

We report the simultaneous imaging of protonated and deprotonated forms of carbonylcyanide p-trifluoromethoxy-phenylhydrazone (FCCP) molecules in live cells by Raman microscopy. Nitriles, structure-sensitive Raman tags, are used to detect the two distinct molecular structures, demonstrating the potential of Raman microscopy for structure-based imaging of bioactive small molecules.