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Supplementary Material (ESI) for Dalton Transactions

This journal is (c) The Royal Society of Chemistry 2003

Supplementary Material

Complexation of alkali metal and alkaline earth ions by anthracene based fluorophores with one and two appended monoaza coronand receptors

Jason P. Geue, Nicholas J. Head, A. David Ward and Stephen F. Lincoln*

Fig. S1. The increase in emission of 1 (3.00  10-6 mol dm-3) with [Na+]total (1.00  10-6-4.00  10-4 mol dm-3) in acetonitrile I = 0.05 mol dm-3 (NEt4ClO4) and 298.2 K when excited at 381 nm. The lowest emission spectrum is that of 1.

Fig. S2. The increase in emission of 1 (3.00  10-6 mol dm-3) with [K+]total (5.00  10-6-5.00  103 mol dm-3) in acetonitrile I = 0.05 mol dm-3 (NEt4ClO4) and 298.2 K when excited at 375 nm. The lowest emission spectrum is that of 1.

Fig. S3. The increase in emission of 1 (3.00  10-6 mol dm-3) with [Rb+]total (2.00  10-5-3.00  10-3 mol dm-3) in acetonitrile I = 0.05 mol dm-3 (NEt4ClO4) and 298.2 K when excited at 386 nm. The lowest emission spectrum is that of 1.

Fig. S4. The increase in emission of 1 (3.00  10-6 mol dm-3) with [Cs+]total (5.00  10-5-4.00  10-3 mol dm-3) in acetonitrile I = 0.05 mol dm-3 (NEt4ClO4) and 298.2 K when excited at 382 nm. The lowest emission spectrum is that of 1.

Fig. S5. The increase in emission of 1 (3.00  10-6 mol dm-3) with [Mg2+]total in acetonitrile and I = 0.05 mol dm-3 (NEt4ClO4) and 298.2 K when excited at 369 nm. The lowest emission spectrum is that of 1.

Fig. S6. The increase in emission of 1 (3.00  10-6 mol dm-3) with [Ca2+]total (6.00  10-8-8.00  10-6 mol dm-3) in acetonitrile I = 0.05 mol dm-3 (NEt4ClO4) and 298.2 K when excited at 374 nm. The lowest emission spectrum is that of 1.

Fig. S7. The increase in emission of 1 (3.00  10-6 mol dm-3) with [Sr2+]total (1.00  10-7-9.00  10-6 mol dm-3) in acetonitrile I = 0.05 mol dm-3 (NEt4ClO4) and 298.2 K when excited at 375 nm. The lowest emission spectrum is that of 1.

Fig. S8. The increase in emission of 1 (3.00  10-6 mol dm-3) with [Ba2+]total (1.00  10-7-9.00  10-6 mol dm-3) in acetonitrile I = 0.05 mol dm-3 (NEt4ClO4) and 298.2 K when excited at 374 nm. The lowest emission spectrum is that of 1.

Fig. S9. Emission variation of 1 (3.00  10-6 moldm-3) at 406 nm with increase in [Ca2+] in acetonitrile and I = 0.05 mol dm-3 (NEt4ClO4) and 298.2 K when excited at 374 nm.

Fig. S10. Emission variation of 1 (3.00  10-6 moldm-3) at 406 nm with increase in [Sr2+] in acetonitrile and I = 0.05 mol dm-3 (NEt4ClO4) and 298.2 K when excited at 375 nm.

Fig. S11. Emission variation of 1 (3.00  10-6 moldm-3) at 406 nm with increase in [Ba2+] in acetonitrile and I = 0.05 mol dm-3 (NEt4ClO4) and 298.2 K when excited at 374 nm.

Fig. S12. The increase in emission of 2 (3.00  10-6 mol dm-3) with [Li+]total (1.00  10-6-8.00  10-4 mol dm-3) in acetonitrile I = 0.05 mol dm-3 (NEt4ClO4) and 298.2 K when excited at 385 nm. The lowest emission spectrum is that of 2.

Fig. S13. The increase in emission of 2 (3.00  10-6 mol dm-3) with [Na+]total (1.00  10-6-3.00  10-3 mol dm-3) in acetonitrile I = 0.05 mol dm-3 (NEt4ClO4) and 298.2 K when excited at 382 nm. The lowest emission spectrum is that of 2.

Fig. S14. The increase in emission of 2 (3.00  10-6 mol dm-3) with [Rb+]total (1.00  10-5-3.00  10-3 mol dm-3) in acetonitrile I = 0.05 mol dm-3 (NEt4ClO4) and 298.2 K when excited at 376 nm. The lowest emission spectrum is that of 2.

Fig. S15. The increase in emission of 2 (3.00  10-6 mol dm-3) with [Ca2+]total (5.00  10-7-8.00  10-5 mol dm-3) in acetonitrile I = 0.05 mol dm-3 (NEt4ClO4) and 298.2 K when excited at 383 nm. The lowest emission spectrum is that of 2.

Fig. S16. The increase in emission of 2 (3.00  10-6 mol dm-3) with [Sr2+]total (5.00  10-7-8.00  10-5 mol dm-3) in acetonitrile I = 0.05 mol dm-3 (NEt4ClO4) and 298.2 K when excited at 384 nm. The lowest emission spectrum is that of 2.

Fig. S17. The increase in emission of 2 (3.00  10-6 mol dm-3) with [Ba2+]total (1.00  10-6-1.00  10-4 mol dm-3) in acetonitrile I = 0.05 mol dm-3 (NEt4ClO4) and 298.2 K when excited at 386 nm. The lowest emission spectrum is that of 2.

Fig. S18. The biphasic emission variation of 2 (3.00  10-6 moldm-3) at 408 nm with increase in [Ca2+]total in acetonitrile and I = 0.05 mol dm-3 (NEt4ClO4) and 298.2 K when excited at 383 nm.

Fig. S19. The biphasic emission variation of 2 (3.00  10-6 moldm-3) at 411 nm with increase in [Sr2+]total in acetonitrile and I = 0.05 mol dm-3 (NEt4ClO4) and 298.2 K when excited at 384 nm.

Fig. S20. The biphasic emission variation of 2 (3.00  10-6 moldm-3) at 410 nm with increase in [Ba2+]total in acetonitrile and I = 0.05 mol dm-3 (NEt4ClO4) and 298.2 K when excited at 386 nm.