Kg. Thomas et al., A SQUARAINE-BASED NEAR-INFRARED ABSORBING SENSOR FOR THE SELECTIVE DETECTION OF TRANSITION AND OTHER METAL-IONS IN AQUEOUS-MEDIA, Chemical communications, (6), 1997, pp. 597-598
A near infrared absorbing cationic squaraine dye 1 is shown to be capa
ble of detecting trace amounts of transition and lanthanide metal ions
in aqueous media, even in the presence of alkali and alkaline earth m
etal ions.