Issue 4, 2019

Rational design of a boron-dipyrromethene-based fluorescent probe for detecting Pd2+ sensitively and selectively in aqueous media

Abstract

A novel fluorescent probe for Pd2+ based on the BODIPY fluorophore exploiting the PET (Photoinduced Electron Transfer) mechanism was designed and successfully synthesized. The fluorescent probe 1 was prepared by introducing m-bisimidazolylbenzene which was connected by phenyl acetylene to the BODIPY dye at the meso position. It exhibited a rapid response and high sensitivity and selectivity toward Pd2+. Probe 1 presented a rapid quenched fluorescence response in aqueous buffer media (pH 5.5) and the detection limit estimated from the titration results was 2.9 × 10−7 M. Meanwhile, other common metal ions did not interfere with the recognition process. The DFT calculation proved that coordination of bisimidazole ligands with Pd2+ effectively decreases the LUMO energy of m-bisimidazolylbenzene which was located between the HOMO and LUMO energies of the BODIPY dye leading to fluorescence quenching via the d-PET mechanism.

Graphical abstract: Rational design of a boron-dipyrromethene-based fluorescent probe for detecting Pd2+ sensitively and selectively in aqueous media

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
23 Kho 2018
Accepted
21 Huk 2018
First published
21 Huk 2018

Analyst, 2019,144, 1260-1264

Rational design of a boron-dipyrromethene-based fluorescent probe for detecting Pd2+ sensitively and selectively in aqueous media

Y. Li, L. Yang, M. Du and G. Chang, Analyst, 2019, 144, 1260 DOI: 10.1039/C8AN01155A

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