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Dengqing Zhang1, Senkun Liu1, Xiang Yang1
1State Key Laboratory for Modification of Chemical Fibers and Polymer Materials, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Donghua University, Shanghai, 201620, P. R. China.
Abstract:
Industry-produced hydrazine (N2H4) is released into the environment, posing a major risk to human health and the ecosystem. Therefore, it is imperative to develop an effective and convenient method for the detection of N2H4. Herein, artificial light-harvesting systems (ALHSs) for N2H4 detection were constructed by applying an aggregation-induced emission-active platinum(II) metallacycle (TPEMc) as the energy donor and rhodols (P1, P2, and P3) as the energy acceptors. The ratiometric fluorescence probes based on ALHSs for N2H4 showed obvious signal amplification and lower limits of detection compared to those of rhodols (P1, P2, P3) alone. The TPEMc-rhodols systems clearly demonstrated a noticeable increase in fluorescence intensity at 550 nm and an obvious fluorescent color shift from cyan to yellow in the presence of N2H4. Fascinatingly, N2H4 could be visually and quantitatively detected in water by the TPEMc-rhodol systems paired with smartphone RGB analysis. Therefore, the combination of platinum(II) metallacycle with rhodols is a promising strategy for simple, sensitive, and visual detection of N2H4.

