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Mingxin Luo1, Bo Sun2, Chen Zhou1
1School of Chemistry & Environmental Engineering, Jilin Provincial International Joint Research Center of Photo-functional Materials and Chemistry, Changchun University of Science and Technology Changchun 130022 PR China zhouchen@cust.edu.cn.
Abstract:
In this research, a novel selective and sensitive fluorescent sensor for detecting Fe3+ was designed and synthesized; it revealed an obvious fluorescence quenching effect upon addition of Fe3+, and possessed the quantitative analysis ability on account of the formation of a 1 : 1 metal-ligand complex. Furthermore, the density functional theory calculations were utilized to study the molecular orbitals as well as the spatial structure. Simultaneously, the cell experiments and zebra fish experiments verified the application value of the sensor in the biological field.
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