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Yuting Chen1, Jianzhuang Jiang
1The Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry and Functional Materials in Universities of Shandong, Dezhou University, Dezhou 253023, China; Beijing Key Laboratory for Science and Application of Functional Molecular and Crystalline Materials, Department of Chemistry, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing 100083, China.
Abstract:
Two porphyrinato-zinc derivatives modified with two and four N,N-di(2-pyridylmethyl)amino groups, namely Zn-Porphyrin-2-DPA (1) and Zn-Porphyrin-4-DPA (2), have been designed, synthesized, and characterized. Systemic studies over a series of metal ions reveal that binding with Fe(3+) for the former compound induces the decrease of fluorescence emission intensity by 37.2%, while for the latter one results in a more remarkable decrease in the fluorescence emission intensity by 90.3%, rendering compound 2 the first example of DPA-modified porphyrin fluorescence ON-OFF sensor for Fe(3+).
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