Issue 25, 2019

Solvent-tuned discriminant sensing of Al3+, Mg2+ and HF2 by vanilinyl-picolinyl hydrazide Schiff base

Abstract

Herein, the vanilinyl-picolinyl hydrazide dyad Schiff base (HVPh) was structurally characterized by single-crystal X-ray diffraction crystallography. The molecule exhibits an intense green fluorescence in the solid state and serves as a solvent-tuned dual detector to Mg2+ and Al3+ and a secondary sensor to HF2. Mg2+ imparts a yellow emission at 522 nm (LOD, 45 nM) in DMSO, whereas an intense blue emission is observed for Al3+ in pure water at 460 nm (LOD, 7.4 nM). The probe formed a 1 : 1 complex with Al3+ and a 1 : 2 complex with Mg2+, and the composition of these complexes was established by NMR, mass and FTIR spectral data. Studies on the anion sensitivity of these complexes showed that HF2 efficiently quenched the emission of the complexes, and the LODs were far below the WHO recommended data (Mg2+, 200 mM; Al3+, 7.41 mM; and F, 3.68 μM). A recovery study was performed to check the practical applicability of the probe using drinking water supplied by Kolkata Municipality Corporation in the Jadavpur University campus. The molecular INHIBIT logic gate was also constructed by the sensor. The DFT and TDDFT computation techniques were used to explain the experimental findings.

Graphical abstract: Solvent-tuned discriminant sensing of Al3+, Mg2+ and HF2− by vanilinyl-picolinyl hydrazide Schiff base

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
19 Jan 2019
Accepted
11 May 2019
First published
13 May 2019

New J. Chem., 2019,43, 9815-9823

Solvent-tuned discriminant sensing of Al3+, Mg2+ and HF2 by vanilinyl-picolinyl hydrazide Schiff base

R. Purkait and C. Sinha, New J. Chem., 2019, 43, 9815 DOI: 10.1039/C9NJ00325H

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