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SPECTROCHIMICA ACTA PART A-MOLECULAR AND BIOMOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY
Volume 280, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.saa.2022.121565
Keywords
Copper phthalocyanines; Hydrogen chloride; Reversible chemosensor; Gas detection
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- Priority Research Centers Program [2019R1A6A1A11051471]
- National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) - Ministry of Science and ICT [NRF-2021K1A4A7A03093851, 20010034]
- Ministry of Trade, Industry & Energy (MOTIE, Korea)
- Overseas Schol-arship Program for Elite Young and Middle-aged Teachers of Lingnan Normal University
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A series of novel copper phthalocyanines with various aminophenoxy groups were designed and synthesized for detecting strong acids. Among them, octa-(diethyl-aminophenoxy)-substituted CuPc 5 showed excellent detection capability for HCl, with high sensitivity and rapid response in versatile conditions. CuPc 5 also demonstrated reusability and great potential for practical detection of HCl and ammonia gas leak. The sensing performance of CuPc 5 was affected by the dissociation constants of the amine groups, steric hindrance of alkyl chains, molar absorption coefficient of CuPc species, and H2O content of the solvent system.
A series of novel peripherally tetra- and octa-substituted copper phthalocyanines (CuPcs) bearing various aminophenoxy groups was designed and synthesized for detecting strong Bronsted acids. Octa-(diethyl-aminophenoxy)-substituted CuPc 5 exhibited excellent HCl detection capability with high sensitivity (limit of detection: 240 ppb), rapid (<2s), and selectivity for strong acids in versatile conditions including solution, solid, and dyed fabric. Furthermore, CuPc 5 noted reusability in recyclable tests with HCl and NH3, demonstrating its great potential for practical detection of HCl and ammonia gas leak under various environments. Based on systemic characterizations based on UV-Vis absorption spectra and NMR, we suggest that the proton of HCl associated with the N atom of CuPc 5, and the proton sensing abilities are directly related to the dissociation constants of the amine groups. The steric hindrance of alkyl chains and molar absorption coefficient of the CuPc species in THF solvent, as well as the H2O content of the solvent system, also affected the sensing performance. Due to less bulky nature of diethyl-amino groups having higher pKa and stronger basicity, CuPc 5 featured effective recognition of strong acids with pKa value less than -2.0 (Ka > 100). To the best of our knowledge, this is the first demonstration of pKa-sensitive colorimetric chemosensor using CuPc backbone, in particular for distinguishing strong Bronsted acids such as HCl.
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