Issue 32, 2019

Logic gate behavior and intracellular application of a fluorescent molecular switch for the detection of Fe3+ and cascade sensing of F in pure aqueous media

Abstract

The nature and coordination sites of the Schiff base 3,3′-(1E,1′E)-(1,3-phenylenebis(azan-1-yl-1-ylidene))bis(methan-1-yl-1-ylidene)dinaphthalen-2-ol (APHN) were tuned by its selective reduction to design a highly efficient fluorescent probe, 3,3′-(pyridine-2,6-diylbis(azanediyl))bis(methylene)dinaphthalen-2-ol (RAPHN). The structures of APHN, RAPHN, and the RAPHN–Fe3+ complex were satisfactorily modeled from the results of density functional theory (DFT) and time-dependent DFT (TD-DFT) calculations. RAPHN worked in pure aqueous medium as a turn on–off–on probe of Fe3+ and F. The fluorescence nature of the probe in the presence and absence of Fe3+/F was regulated by a set of mechanisms including –CH[double bond, length as m-dash]N isomerization and LMCT. A 2 : 1 (M : L) binding stoichiometry was established from a fluorescence Job's plot and further substantiated from HR–MS studies. The limits of detection of RAPHN for Fe3+ and RAPHN–Fe3+ for F were found to be 2.49 × 10−7 M and 1.09 × 10−7 M, respectively. The RAPHN probe caused no cytotoxicity in gut tissue of Drosophila even at high concentrations. The probe displayed excellent bioimaging applications for detection of Fe3+ and F in gut tissue of Drosophila. A combinatorial logic gate was constructed for the proper understanding of the working principle of RAPHN.

Graphical abstract: Logic gate behavior and intracellular application of a fluorescent molecular switch for the detection of Fe3+ and cascade sensing of F− in pure aqueous media

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
20 Jun 2019
Accepted
23 Jul 2019
First published
23 Jul 2019

Org. Biomol. Chem., 2019,17, 7497-7506

Logic gate behavior and intracellular application of a fluorescent molecular switch for the detection of Fe3+ and cascade sensing of F in pure aqueous media

R. Dwivedi, D. P. Singh, S. Singh, A. K. Singh, B. S. Chauhan, S. Srikrishna and V. P. Singh, Org. Biomol. Chem., 2019, 17, 7497 DOI: 10.1039/C9OB01398A

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