Cinchona alkaloids – acid, anion-driven fluorescent INHIBIT logic gates with a receptor1–fluorophore–spacer–receptor2 format and PET and ICT mechanisms
Abstract
The fluorescent natural products, quinine, quinidine, cinchonine and cinchonidine are demonstrated as H+-enabled, halide-disabled (Cl−, Br− or I−) INHIBIT and INHIBIT-OR combinatorial logic gates in water. More fluorescent natural products with intrinsic logic properties await to be discovered.