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Acylhydrazone Functionalized Triphenylamine-Based Fluorescent Probe for Cu2+: Tunable Structures of Conjugated Bridge and Its Practical Application

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Novel fluorescent probes were constructed for the convenient and rapid analysis of Cu2+ ions, taking advantages of the the triphenylamine backbone as chromophore and acylhydrazone group as the Cu2+ recognition site. Especially, probe T2 could act as a dual-channel probe towards Cu2+ through both fluorescent and colorimetric method. Through the fluorescent method, the detection limit of probe T2 was calculated to be as low as 90 nmol/L and there was a good linear relationship between the intensity change and the concentration of Cu2+ ions. By virtue of the two-phase liquid-liquid extraction method, probe T2 could be successfully applied in practical extraction and separation of Cu2+. Furthermore, by applying a “turn-off-turn-on” circle, compound T2 could act as a sensitive probe towards S2− anions through the indirect approach and the detection limit of complex T2-Cu2+ for S2− anion was found to be 110 nmol/L.

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This work was financially supported by the National Key Research and Development Plan (2019YFE0107200) and the Xiangyang Science and Technology Project (No. 2020YL03).

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XC: supervision, investigation designed and directed the study, planned and carried out the experiments, wrote the manuscript. Dr. RZ: contributed to the design and synthesis of the organic compounds. JS: contributed to the DFT calculation. KX: contributed to the DFT calculation. WL: contributed to the the fluorescence spectrum test and analysis. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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Cheng, X., Zhang, R., Sun, J. et al. Acylhydrazone Functionalized Triphenylamine-Based Fluorescent Probe for Cu2+: Tunable Structures of Conjugated Bridge and Its Practical Application. J Fluoresc (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10895-023-03492-w

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