Patent 9815746 was granted and assigned to Georgetown University on November, 2017 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The present invention relates to multifunctional chemosensors that can measure the concentration, enantiomeric excess (ee), and absolute configuration of chiral compounds. The chemosensors described herein may contain a backbone moiety that is bonded to a fluorescent moiety and a moiety for bonding a chiral compound. Backbone moieties may include aromatic groups, for example, naphthyl. The chemosensors described herein are useful for measuring concentration, enantiomeric excess, and absolute configuration of organic molecules in areas such as high throughput screening.