Abstract

A novel ratiometric fluorescence probe for hypochlorous acid was constructed by coumarin and pyridinium fluorophore based on the Forster resonance energy transfer (FRET) and intramolecular charge transfer (ICT) platform. In this ICT/FRET system, the energy transfer efficiency is high to 94.3%. Moreover, the probe could respond to hypochlorous acid with high selectivity and sensitivity, and exhibited a large Stokes shift. It was interesting to find that the probe could recognize hypochlorous acid via a new mechanism, in which the α-position of carbonyl group was oxidized to form a diketone derivative. More importantly, the probe was successfully applied to the ratiometric imaging of both exogenous and endogenous hypochlorous acid in living RAW 264.7 cells, with low toxicity and high photo-stability.

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