Achieving white light emission from a hydrazone through three different channels: AIE, solvatochromism and excitation wavelength.

Reported herein is a hetero-bis-hydrazone that emits white light, capitalizing on AIE, solvatochromism, and tuning excitation wavelength. Two ESIPT moieties simultaneously emitting in the blue and orange regions led to white light. The presence of four tautomers, two from each, was crucial to achieve this.

Carbohydrate recognition using metal-ligand assemblies.

Carbohydrate-binding proteins, known as lectins, play a wide range of vital roles in cellular and pathological processes. Mimicking lectins to achieve specific molecular recognition of carbohydrates in organic and aqueous media using artificial receptors is challenging due to the synthetic hurdles of receptors and structural similarities between sugars. Carbohydrate recognition using non-covalent interactions remains a vast topic.