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CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 48, Issue 70, Pages 8732-8744Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c2cc33366j
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- NSF of China [21105104, 20935005, 20905070]
- National Basic Research Program of China [2011CB935800, 2010CB933502]
- Chinese Academy of Science [KJCX2-EW-N06-01]
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Spectroscopic probes have been extensively investigated and used widely in many fields because of their powerful ability to improve analytical sensitivity, and to offer greater temporal and spatial resolution (in some cases a molecule event may be visualized by the naked eye). So far, different photophysical mechanisms, such as charge transfer, photo-induced electron transfer and fluorescent resonance energy transfer, have been employed to develop various spectroscopic probes with superior properties. However, these photophysical mechanisms depend on the energy levels of molecular orbitals, which are usually difficult to accurately determine. This would lead to the poor prediction of analytical performance of the designed probe. Instead, the change of pi-conjugated systems induced by chemical reactions is often accompanied by a distinct alteration in spectroscopic signal, which is more predictable and is of high signal/background ratio. This mechanism can serve as an effective measure for developing excellent spectroscopic probes, but to our knowledge, has not been systematically summarized. In this feature article, we review the development of spectroscopic probes with changeable pi-conjugated systems, which is catalogued according to the fluorochromes: fluorescein, rhodamine, spiropyran, squaraine, coumarin, cyanine, etc. Two main strategies for constructing these spectroscopic probes, including ring-closing reaction and nucleophilic addition reaction, are summarized, and the merits and limitations of the probes are discussed.
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