A metal–organic framework with a 9-phenylcarbazole moiety as a fluorescent tag for picric acid explosive detection: collaboration of electron transfer, hydrogen bonding and size matching†
Abstract
We report here an electron-rich luminescent metal–organic framework (MOF), Zn–PDA, displaying high selectivity in the detection of PA (picric acid) explosive as a fluorescent sensor, which can serve as the first case of MOFs for detecting PA through synergistic effects including electron transfer, hydrogen-bonding and size matching.