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Dual-mode chemodosimetric response of dibromo-BODIPY with anions
Adiki Raja Sekhar1, Masood Ayoub Kaloo, Jeyaraman Sankar
1Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal, Indore Bypass Road, Bhouri, Bhopal, 462066, India. sankar@iiserb.ac.in.
Abstract:
Aromatic nucleophilic substitution (Ar-SN) reaction of 3,5-dibromopentafluorophenyl-BODIPY has been explored as a remarkable basis for selective discrimination of anions. The efficient and characteristic ability of anions to modulate the absorption and emission properties of the dye provides an instantaneous distinction through dual-modes. For the first time, a novel platform to achieve dual-modal and promising recognition with discrimination of a series of anions differing in the nucleophilic atoms (F, O, C and N) has been taken into consideration. The behaviour of various anions with dibromo-BODIPY and vivid signal transduction has been fully established with absorption and emission spectroscopy. In addition to this, recognition events have been unambiguously characterized by (1)H, (19)F-NMR and single-crystal XRD.
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