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Ke-Yang Wu1, Liang Qin1, Cheng Fan1
1Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of New Drug Screening and Guangzhou Key Laboratory of Drug Research for Emerging Virus Prevention and Treatment, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510515, Guang Dong, China. jxchen@smu.edu.cn.
Abstract:
A water-stable three-dimensional (3D) metal-organic framework (MOF) of {[Tb(Cmdcp)(H2O)3]2(NO3)2·5H2O}n (1, H3CmdcpBr = N-carboxymethyl-(3,5-dicarboxyl)pyridinium bromide) has been synthesized and characterized. MOF 1 is highly emissive, giving rise to green luminescence that can be quenched by Fe3+ due to the partial overlap of its excitation spectrum with the absorption spectrum of Fe3+. The subsequent introduction of ascorbic acid (AA) leads to the reduction of Fe3+ into Fe2+, accompanied by the near-entire recovery of MOF 1 emission. The density functional theory (DFT) calculation results support the proposed mechanism. Such a sensing cycle is further transferable to urine and serum samples with a satisfactory near-quantitative recovery, highlighting its good potential in biologically relevant applications.
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