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DALTON TRANSACTIONS
Volume 49, Issue 17, Pages 5445-5453Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/d0dt00031K
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- State Key Laboratory of Environmental and Biological Analysis from the Hong Kong Baptist University
- President's Award for Outstanding Performance in Research Supervision from the Hong Kong Baptist University
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A completely water-soluble, high quantum yield blue-fluorescent benzimidazole derivative (AQ), containing a rigid benzimidazole-thiophene structure, was synthesized. Among 21 metal ions, the fluorescence of AQ was selectively turned off by Cu2+ to form an AQ-Cu2+ ensemble. Thereafter, the fluorescence of the AQ-Cu2+ ensemble was turned on by sulfide (S2-) with high selectivity and sensitivity in pure water solution. In comparison with AQ-Ag+ and AQ-Hg2+ ensembles, AQ-Cu2+ was the only ensemble that was capable of detecting a sulfide anion. Also, the fluorescence intensity of AQ was linearly proportional to the concentration of Cu2+ and S2-. Both Cu2+ and S2- were detected within a minute in vitro. Moreover, AQ worked best in the pH range of 5-10 and had a limit of detection of 50 nM and 354 nM for Cu2+ and S2- respectively. It was employed for the detection of sulfide in human lung cancer A549 cells with low cytotoxicity.
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