A highly selective fluorescent sensor for mercury ion (II) based on azathia-crown ether possessing a dansyl moiety.

An intramolecular charge transfer (ICT) fluorescent sensor 1 using a dansyl moiety as the fluorophore and an azathia-crown ether as the receptor was designed, synthesized and characterized. The ions-selective signaling behaviors of the sensor 1 were investigated in CH(3) CN-H(2) O (1:1, v/v) by fluorescence spectroscopy. It exhibited remarkable fluorescence quenching upon addition of Hg(2+), which was attributed to the 1:1 complex formation between 1 and Hg(2+), while other selected metal ions induced basically no spectral changes. The sensor 1 showed a rapid and linear response towards Hg(2+) in the concentration range from 5.0 × 10(-7) to 1.0 × 10(-5) mol L(-1) with the detection limit of 1.0 × 10(-7) mol L(-1). Furthermore, the whole process could be carried out in a wide pH range of 2.0-8.0 and was not disturbed by other metal ions. Thus, the sensor 1 was used for practical determination of Hg(2+) in different water samples with satisfactory results.

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