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- A new special probe for detecting cyanide has been made using a quick method.
- This probe changes color and brightness when it comes into contact with cyanide, making it very effective at finding it in water.
- Scientists used complex calculations to understand how this probe works, showing that cyanide changes its shape and affects how it reacts, leading to noticeable color and light changes.
Article Abstract
A new cyanide probe has been prepared by one-step synthesis and evaluated by UV-vis and fluorescent method. This probe is combined by a fluorene part and a hemicyanine group through a conjugated linker, which is found to show rapid response, high selectivity and sensitivity for cyanide anions with significant dual colorimetric and fluorescent signal changes in aqueous solution. An intramolecular charge transfer (ICT) effect plays a key role in the CN sensing properties, and the details of this mechanism are further supported by DFT and TD-DFT calculations. The theoretical study shows that the introduction of CN twists the original plane structure and blocks the ICT process in the whole molecule, which brings about the absorption blue-shift and the fluorescence quenching.
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| http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.talanta.2018.03.013 | DOI Listing |
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