Thymine based copolymers: feasible sensors for the detection of persistent organic pollutants in water

Abstract

A multidisciplinary approach for understanding properties of thymine-based copolymer sensors.

Advances in Optical Sensors for Persistent Organic Pollutant Environmental Monitoring

“…Accordingly, their detection is an imperative task to comply and, on the subject, some recent studies exploiting fluorometric sensors have been reported by Bortolato and coworkers. In a first explorative paper, they showed the potentiality of bio-inspired water-soluble copolymers of proper composition based on thymine and anionic groups to detect benzo[a]pyrene (BaP) in water by enhancing its native luminescence [ 23 ]. The polymeric system has demonstrated to be able to set non-covalent interactions with the target contaminant both in solution and once immobilized on solid PET slides.…”

The influence of isolated and penta-hydrated Zn2+ on some of the intramolecular proton-transfer processes of thymine: a quantum chemical study

“…For the adenine-thymine base pair, such a proton-transfer process would lead to thymine tautomerization and the mispairing of guanine and thymine tautomer. 8 The biological importance of thymine has motivated a number of experimental [9][10][11][12] and theoretical [13][14][15] investigations.…”

“…For the adenine–thymine base pair, such a proton-transfer process would lead to thymine tautomerization and the mispairing of guanine and thymine tautomer. 8 The biological importance of thymine has motivated a number of experimental 9–12 and theoretical 13–15 investigations. Previous experimental 16 and computational 17 studies of thymine were focused on both the canonical and rare tautomers.…”