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Just as litmus paper changes from red to blue with an increase in pH, so the fluorescence emission of the oxazole derivative 1 shifts from green to blue. Ratiometric measurements of the fluorescence emissions of the two species, after one- or two-photon excitation, allow 1 to be employed as a pH sensor over the mid-pH range.
Charier et al. (Tue,) studied this question.