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To our knowledge, all the NMR‐based chemosensors report‐
ed so far follow the “classic” approach were the recognition
causes modifications of a chemosensor property, such as the
ability to affect water relaxivity6 or the chemical shift of a re‐
ceptor’s heteronucleus.15 In this way, most of the meaningful
information associated with NMR is lost. More similar to our
approach is the “chromatographic NMR spectroscopy”,
where interactions with a stationary phase are used to per‐
turb the diffusion coefficients of the sample components in
such way that the NMR signals can be separated by means of
a DOSY experiment.16 However, besides the intrinsic difficul‐
ty of spreading the diffusion rates with a chromatographic
medium, this approach suffers from limitations such as the
need of high resolutions in both the frequency and the diffu‐
sion domains, along with non‐trivial spectral inversion prob‐
lems. The “NMR chemosensing” approach introduced here
retains all the structural information provided by NMR spec‐
troscopy, can be very easily implemented on standard in‐
struments and can benefit from the features of monolayer
protected nanoparticles, which can be easily tailored to meet
the recognition requirements of different classes of analytes.
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ASSOCIATED CONTENT
Supporting Information
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AUTHOR INFORMATION
Corresponding Author
fabrizio.mancin@unipd.it; federico.rastrelli@unipd.it
Notes
The authors declare no competing financial interests.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
Funded by the ERC Starting Grants Project MOSAIC (grant
259014). The authors acknowledge Davide Zaramella and
Massimo Bellanda for assistance with HPLC and STD meas‐
urements, respectively, and Moreno Lelli and Giulio Tognin
for helpful discussions.
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