Through-Bond Energy Transfer Cassettes with Minimal Spectral Overlap between the Donor Emission and Acceptor Absorption: Coumarin-rhodamine Dyads with Large pseudo-Stokes Shifts and Emission Shifts. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2010, 49, 375-379.

A Fluorescent Cobalt Probe with a Large Ratiometric Fluorescence Response via Modulation of Energy Acceptor Molar Absorptivity on Metal Ion Binding. Advanced Functional Materials 2008, 18, 2366-2372. (Highlighted in Synfacts. 2008, 11, 1167-1167.)

Coumarin Caged Rosamine Probes Based on the Unique Intramolecular Carbon-Carbon Spirocyclization. Chemistry - A European Journal 2010, 16, 3914-3917.

Construction of Fluorescent Probes Via Protection/Deprotection of Functional Groups: A Ratiometric Fluorescent Probe for Cu2+. Chemistry - A European Journal 2009, 15, 1030-1035.

A Sensitive and Selective Fluorescent Thiol Probe in Water Based on the Conjugate 1, 4- addition of Thiols to α, β-unsaturated Ketones. Chemistry - A European Journal 2009, 15, 5096-5103.

A Ratiometric Fluorescent Probe for Hypochlorite Based on a Deoximation Reaction. Chemistry - A European Journal 2009, 15, 2305-2309.

Double Functional Group Transformations for Fluorescent Probe Construction: a Fluorescence Turn-on Probe for Thioureas. Chemistry - A European Journal. 2010, 16, 6454–6457. (Highlighted in Synfacts. 2010, 9, 1004-1004.)

A highly selective and sensitive fluorescent probe for Hg2+ imaging in live cells based on a rhodamine-thioamide-alkyne scaffold. Chemical Communications 2010, 46, 3529 - 3531.

A Highly Sensitive Fluorescent Probe for Detection of Benzenethiols in the Environmental Samples and Living Cells. Chemical Communications 2010, 46, 1503–1505.

Fluorescence turn-on detection of Cu2+ in water samples and living cells based on the unprecedented copper-mediated dihydrorosamine oxidation reaction. Chemical Communications 2010, 46, 1311–1313.