Abstract
A practical hydrazine-carbothioamide-based fluorescent chemosensor TCC (N-(4-chlorophenyl)-2-(thiophene-2-carbonyl)hydrazine-1-carbothioamide) was applied for Zn2+ detection. TCC exhibited selective fluorescence emission for Zn2+ and did not show any interference with other metal ions. In particular, TCC was utilized for the detection of Zn2+ in paper strips, zebrafish and real water samples. TCC could detect Zn2+ down to 0.39 µM in the solution phase and 51.13 µM in zebrafish. The association ratio between TCC and Zn2+ was determined to be 2:1 by ESI-mass and Job plot. The sensing mechanism of TCC for Zn2+ was illustrated to be a chelation-enhanced fluorescence process through spectroscopic experiments and theoretical calculations.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 32 |
| Journal | Chemosensors |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jan 2022 |
Keywords
- Carbothioamide
- Chemosensor
- Hydrazine
- Test-strip
- Zebrafish
- Zinc ion