Abstract
A new type of phosgene probe with a limit of detection down to 0.12 nM, response time of less than 1.5 s, and high selectivity over other similarly reactive toxic chemicals was developed using ethylenediamine as the recognition moiety and 8-substituted BODIPY unit as the fluorescence signaling component. The probe undergoes sequential phosgene-mediated nucleophilic substitution reaction and intramolecular cyclization reaction with high rate, yielding a product with the intramolecular charge transfer (ICT) process from amine to the BODIPY core significantly inhibited. Owing to the emission feature of 8-substituted BODIPY that is highly sensitive to the substituent's electronic nature, such inhibition on the ICT process strikingly generates strong fluorescence contrast by a factor of more than 23 300, and therefore creates the superhigh sensitivity of the probe for phosgene. Owing to the high reactivity of ethylenediamine of the probe in nucleophilic substitution reactions, the probe displays a very fast response rate to phosgene.
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