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RSC ADVANCES
Volume 10, Issue 73, Pages 44860-44875Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/d0ra09023a
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- Department of Science and Technology [SR/FST/CSI-264/2014, EMR/2017/0001789]
- Department of Biotechnology, Government of India, New Delhi
- CSIR, Government of India
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Currently, considerable efforts have been devoted to the detection and quantification of hazardous multi-analytes using a single probe. Herein, we have developed a simple, environment-friendly colourimetric sensor for the sensitive, selective and rapid detection of Ni2+ and Cu2+ ions using a simple organic Schiff base ligand L in methanol-Tris-HCl buffer (1 : 1 v/v, 10 mM, pH = 7.2). The probe L exhibited a binding-induced colour change from colourless to yellow and fluorescence quenching in the presence of both Ni2+ and Cu2+ ions. The interactions between L and the respective metal ions were studied by Job's plot, electrospray ionisation-mass spectrometry (ESI-MS), Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), density functional theory (DFT) and time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) calculations. The limit of detection (LOD) of L towards Ni2+ and Cu2+ was calculated to be 7.4 x 10(-7) M and 4.9 x 10(-7) M, respectively. Furthermore, the L-Cu2+ complex could be used as a new cascade fluorescent-colourimetric sensor to detect CN- ions with a very low level of detection (40 nM). Additionally, L could operate in a wide pH range, and thus was successfully applied for the detection and quantification of Ni2+ and Cu2+ in environmental samples, and for building OR- and IMPLICATION-type logic gates.
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