Zhi-Xiong Liu, Yihua Sun, Yu Feng,* Hui Chen, Yan-Mei He, and Qing-Hua Fan

A convenient and straightforward method for the visual recognition of chloride ion has been established through a chloride-responsive dendritic organogel. The specificity was largely attributed to the higher binding affinity of the dendritic gelator for chloride compared with other anions through halogen bonding interactions

This work has been published in Chem. Commun. 2016, 52, 2269-2272.