A novel, selective, and extremely responsive thienyl-based dual fluorogenic probe for tandem superoxide and Hg2+ chemosensing†
Abstract
Novel, high “turn-on” Hg2+ and O2− fluorescence behaviour (∼25-fold) with probes bearing [SthiNpy] and [SthiNpyNpy] binding receptors, joined by oxidizable sulphides, may involve S-bound transient ROS species; such optical O2− behaviour operates moderately in neuroblastoma.