Coumarin-Based Small-Molecule Fluorescent Chemosensors

-chromen-2-one motif, as it is known according to IUPAC nomenclature. Coumarin derivatives are widely found in nature, especially in plants and are constituents of several essential oils. Up to now, thousands of coumarin derivatives have been isolated from nature or produced by chemists. More recently, the coumarin platform has been widely adopted in the design of small-molecule fluorescent chemosensors because of its excellent biocompatibility, strong and stable fluorescence emission, and good structural flexibility. This scaffold has found wide applications in the development of fluorescent chemosensors in the fields of molecular recognition, molecular imaging, bioorganic chemistry, analytical chemistry,…

• NN
  National Natural Science Foundation of China

  Awards: 21472067, 21877048, 21672130, 21672083
• MO
  Ministry of Education

  Award: NRF-2017R1D1A1B03032561
• CP
  China Postdoctoral Science Foundation

  Award: 2018M632603
• UO
  University of Jinan

  Award: 309-10004
• NS
  Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province

  Award: ZR2017MEM006