Betti base and its modified phthalonitrile derivative for the turn on fluorimetric detection of Hg2+ and Cr3+ ions

Publication date: Available online 6 June 2019Source: Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: ChemistryAuthor(s): G.S. Amitha, Vijisha K. Rajan, B Amritha, K. Muraleedharan, Suni VasudevanAbstractThe Betti Base Phenyl-(2-pyridinylamino)-methyl-2-naphthalenol (BB) derived by the multicomponent Mannich aminoalkylations reaction from 2-naphthol, 2-aminopyridine and benzaldehyde. The modified phthalonitrile 4-((1-(phenyl(pyridin-2-ylamino)methyl)naphthalen-2-yl)oxy)phthalonitrile BBPN was obtained by aromatic nucleophilic coupling reaction of 4-nitrophthalonitrile with BB. The compounds were successfully characterized by common spectroscopic and single crystal XRD techniques. The compounds BB and BBPN was exhibited a selective and sensitive fluorescence detection tendency towards mercuric Hg2+ and chromium Cr3+ ions respectively by the fluorescence turn on processes. Job’s plot method is employed to obtain idea about the stoichiometric interaction of metal ions with fluorescent probes. Theoretical calculation was done by Density Functional Theory DFT-B3YLP in order to get atomistic insights into the coordination geometry of Hg2+ and Cr3+ with BB and BBPN respectively. The limit of detection (LOD) of Hg2+ with BB and Cr3+ with BBPN was estimated respectively as 9.7 × 10-7 mol/L and 7.03 × 10-6 mol/L. The fluorescence enhancement of both compounds were induced by the inhibition of Photoinduced Electron Transfer (PET) process in which electron transfer happens from...

Source: Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry - June 6, 2019 Category: Chemistry Source Type: research