A strikingly fast route to methylmercury acetylides as a new opportunity for monomethylmercury detection

Methylmercury σ-complexation to fluorescent 10-(3-trimethylsilyl-2-propynyl)-9-(10H)-acridinone 2 in dichloromethane and in the presence of Bu4NF · 3H2O is exploited in a new practical and sensitive quantitation of monomethylmercury in water and in biological tissues.