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Salen, salan and salalen zinc(II) complexes in the interaction with HS-: time-resolved fluorescence applications
Maria Strianese1, Gerard Joseph D'Auria1, Marina Lamberti1
1Dipartimento di Chimica e Biologia "Adolfo Zambelli", Università degli Studi di Salerno, Via Giovanni Paolo II, 132, 84084, Fisciano (SA), Italy. mstriane@unisa.it.
Abstract:
In the current work we investigate the route of interaction of a newly synthesized family of zinc complexes with HS- by a plethora of different spectroscopic techniques. A computational analysis on the time dependent density functional theory (TD-DFT) level explored the overall fluorescence properties of the title complexes and their different fluorescence responses to HS-. Time-resolved fluorescence experiments were also performed and highlight the great potential of the current systems to be implemented as HS- fluorescent sensors.
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