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  1. Detection of Azo Dyes Using Carbon Dots from Olive Mill Wastes

    Article • Chemosensors, November 2022, MDPI AG

    Professor José Virgílio Prata, Mario Berberan-Santos

  2. Luminescent Carbon Dots from Wet Olive Pomace: Structural Insights, Photophysical Properties and Cytotoxicity

    Article • Molecules, October 2022, MDPI AG

    Professor José Virgílio Prata, Mario Berberan-Santos

  3. Carbon Dots from Coffee Grounds: Synthesis, Characterization, and Detection of Noxious Nitroanilines

    Article • Chemosensors, March 2022, MDPI AG

    Professor José Virgílio Prata

  4. Carbon Dots Synthesis from Coffee Grounds, and Sensing of Nitroanilines

    Article • November 2021, MDPI AG

    Professor José Virgílio Prata

  5. Fluorescent Bis-Calix[4]arene-Carbazole Conjugates: Synthesis and Inclusion Complexation Studies with Fullerenes C60 and C70

    Article • Molecules, August 2021, MDPI AG

    Professor José Virgílio Prata

  6. Fluorescent Calix[4]arene-Carbazole-Containing Polymers as Sensors for Nitroaromatic Explosives

    Article • Chemosensors, December 2020, MDPI AG

    Professor José Virgílio Prata

  7. Fluorescent Calix[4]arene-Oxacyclophane Sensor for Transition Metal Cations

    Article • November 2020, MDPI AG

    Professor José Virgílio Prata

  8. A New Fluorescent Calixarene Dimer: Synthesis, Optical Properties, and Sensory Applications

    Article • November 2020, MDPI AG

    Professor José Virgílio Prata

  9. Towards Greener Mechanosynthesis of Functional Calixarenes

    Article • November 2020, MDPI AG

    Professor José Virgílio Prata

  10. Highly Sensitive and Selective Fluorescent Probes for Cu(II) Detection Based on Calix[4]arene-Oxacyclophane Architectures

    Article • Molecules, May 2020, MDPI AG

    Professor José Virgílio Prata

  11. Finding Value in Wastewaters from the Cork Industry: Carbon Dots Synthesis and Fluorescence for Hemeprotein Detection

    Article • Molecules, May 2020, MDPI AG

    Professor José Virgílio Prata, Mario Berberan-Santos

  12. A Solid-State Fluorescence Sensor for Nitroaromatics and Nitroanilines Based on a Conjugated Calix[4]arene Polymer

    Article • Journal of Fluorescence, December 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor José Virgílio Prata

  13. How an environmental issue could turn into useful high-valued products: The olive mill wastewater case

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, January 2019, Elsevier

    Professor José Virgílio Prata

  14. Fostering protein–calixarene interactions: from molecular recognition to sensing

    Article • RSC Advances, January 2016, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor José Virgílio Prata

  15. Aryleneethynylene Trimers Bearing Calix[4]arenes: Synthesis, Optical Properties and Self-Assembling Studies

    Article • Macromolecular Symposia, June 2015, Wiley

    Professor José Virgílio Prata

  16. Inherently chiral calix[4]arenes with planar chirality: two new entries to the family

    Article • Pure and Applied Chemistry, November 2014, De Gruyter

    Professor José Virgílio Prata

  17. A fluorescent bicyclic calix[4]arene–oxacyclophane with planar chirality: resolution, chiroptical properties, and absolute configuration

    Article • Tetrahedron Asymmetry, April 2014, Elsevier

    Professor José Virgílio Prata

  18. Chiroptical and emissive properties of a calix[4]arene-containing chiral poly(p-phenylene ethynylene) with enantioselective recognition ability

    Article • Polymer Chemistry, January 2014, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor José Virgílio Prata

  19. A new fluorescent double-cavity calix[4]arene: synthesis and complexation studies toward nitroanilines

    Article • Tetrahedron Letters, November 2013, Elsevier

    Professor José Virgílio Prata

  20. Cooperative Effects in the Detection of a Nitroaliphatic Liquid Explosive and an Explosive Taggant in the Vapor Phase by Calix[4]arene-Based Carbazole-Containing Conjugated Polymers

    Article • ChemPlusChem, October 2013, Wiley

    Professor José Virgílio Prata

  21. New entities for sensory chemistry based on calix[4]arene-carbazole conjugates: from synthesis to applications

    Article • Supramolecular Chemistry, June 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Professor José Virgílio Prata

  22. Calix[4]arene–carbazole-containing polymers: Synthesis and properties

    Article • Reactive and Functional Polymers, September 2012, Elsevier

    Professor José Virgílio Prata

  23. Solid-state sensory properties of CALIX-poly(phenylene ethynylene)s toward nitroaromatic explosives

    Article • Sensors and Actuators B Chemical, January 2012, Elsevier

    Professor José Virgílio Prata

  24. Substituted p-phenylene ethynylene trimers as fluorescent sensors for nitroaromatic explosives

    Article • Sensors and Actuators B Chemical, January 2012, Elsevier

    Professor José Virgílio Prata

  25. Synthesis, structure, and optical properties of an alternating calix[4]arene-based meta -linked phenylene ethynylene copolymer

    Article • Journal of Polymer Science Part A Polymer Chemistry, October 2010, Wiley

    Professor José Virgílio Prata

  26. ChemInform Abstract: Intramolecular Addition of Acyldiazenecarboxylates onto Double Bonds in the Synthesis of Heterocycles.

    Article • ChemInform, May 2010, Wiley

    Professor José Virgílio Prata

  27. Extraction of hemoglobin with calixarenes and biocatalysis in organic media of the complex with pseudoactivity of peroxidase

    Article • Journal of Molecular Catalysis B Enzymatic, January 2010, Elsevier

    Professor José Virgílio Prata

  28. Novel fluorescent (p-phenylene ethynylene)-calix[4]arene-based polymer: Design, synthesis, and properties

    Article • Journal of Polymer Science Part A Polymer Chemistry, October 2008, Wiley

    Professor José Virgílio Prata

  29. Studies Towards the Living Polymerisation of Phenylethynyl-calix[4]arene Compounds with Rh-based Ternary Catalytic Systems

    Article • Supramolecular Chemistry, January 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Professor José Virgílio Prata

  30. Synthesis and Rh(I)-catalyzed polymerization of 1,3-diphenylyne-calix[4]arene compounds: Novel conjugated, calixarene-based polymers

    Article • Journal of Polymer Science Part A Polymer Chemistry, November 2006, Wiley

    Professor José Virgílio Prata

  31. Comparative Study of the Copolymerization Kinetics of Mono and Divinylbenzylp-tert-Butylcalix[4]arene Derivatives and Styrene

    Article • Supramolecular Chemistry, May 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Professor José Virgílio Prata

  32. Radical cyclopolymerization of a divinylbenzyl-p-tert-butylcalix[4]arene derivative

    Article • Reactive and Functional Polymers, April 2006, Elsevier

    Professor José Virgílio Prata

  33. Linear and crosslinked copolymers of p-tert-butylcalix[4]arene derivatives and styrene: New synthetic approaches to polymer-bound calix[4]arenes

    Article • Reactive and Functional Polymers, November 2005, Elsevier

    Professor José Virgílio Prata

  34. The synthesis of novel polymer-bound calix[4]arenes

    Article • Reactive and Functional Polymers, August 2004, Elsevier

    Professor José Virgílio Prata

  35. Novel laser-induced luminescence resulting from benzophenone/O-propylated p-tert-butylcalix[4]arene complexes. A diffuse reflectance study

    Article • Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences, October 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor José Virgílio Prata

  36. Intramolecular addition of acyldiazenecarboxylates onto double bonds in the synthesis of heterocycles

    Article • Journal of the Chemical Society Perkin Transactions 1, January 2002, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor José Virgílio Prata

  37. Diffuse reflectance studies of β-phenylpropiophenone and benzophenone inclusion complexes with calix[4], [6] and [8]arenesDedicated to Professor Frank Wilkinson on the occasion of his retirement.

    Article • Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, December 2001, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor José Virgílio Prata