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This article is concerned with our recent achievement in developing synthetic chromogenic receptors for optical active amines and amino acid derivatives. Pre-organized (S)-1,1'-bi-2-naphthyl-and bis(indophenol)-derived calix[4]crown 1a shows naked-eye detectable chiral recognition between those enantiomers. The spectroscopic properties are reported, as well as an estimation of the enantioselectivity using an HPLC equipped with a chiral packing column.

A new type of chromoionophore, mono(indoani1ine)-derived calix[6]arene 1, has been synthesized, which shows a selective U022+ ion-induced pronounced colour change (wavelength change ca. 60 nm) with increasing absorption intensity in 99% EtOH at 25 "C, making it of potential use as an optical sensor for U022+ detection.

This study investigates the quantumness of gravity under the setup of the atomic interferometry. We evaluated interference visibility considering a particle with internal energy levels in a harmonic trapping potential. As per the result, for a spatially superposed gravitational source mass, interference visibility exhibits collapse and revival behavior, which implies that an initial separable internal state evolves to the entangled state with respect to the degrees-of-freedom of the center of mass, the internal energy levels, and the external source state. In particular, it does not exhibit revival behavior when gravity is treated as a quantum interaction; however, it revives with a finite period for a semi-classical treatment of gravity. We also examined the temporal behavior of entanglement negativity and found that the entanglement between the internal energy state and the external source state is uniquely created by the quantum interaction of gravity in accordance with the mass-energy equivalence and the weak equivalence principle.