title: Two Schiff-base fluorescent sensors for selective sensing of aluminum (III): Experimental and computational studies.
abstract: Two Schiff-base fluorescent sensors have been synthesized, which both can act as fluorescent probes for Al(3+), upon addition of Al(3+), they exhibit a large fluorescence enhancement which might be attributed to the formation of 1:1 ligand-Al complexes which inhibit photoinduced electron transfer (PET) progress, and that the proposed binding modes of the sensors and Al(3+) are identified by theoretical calculations.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, PR China.
authors.forename: Jing-Can
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Qin
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, PR China.
authors.forename: Xiao-Ying
authors.initials: XY
authors.lastname: Cheng
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, PR China.
authors.forename: Ran
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Fang
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, PR China.
authors.forename: Ming-Fang
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, PR China. Electronic address: yangzy@lzu.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Zheng-Yin
authors.initials: ZY
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, PR China.
authors.forename: Tian-Rong
authors.initials: TR
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Material Science and Chemistry, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, PR China.
authors.forename: Yong
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Li
mesh_terms: D000535:Aluminum / Q000032:analysis*; D002412:Cations / Q000032:analysis; D004579:Electron Transport; D005453:Fluorescence; D005456:Fluorescent Dyes / Q000737:chemistry*; D008024:Ligands; D008958:Models, Molecular; D012545:Schiff Bases / Q000737:chemistry*; D013050:Spectrometry, Fluorescence
chemical_list: D002412:Cations; D005456:Fluorescent Dyes; D008024:Ligands; D012545:Schiff Bases; D000535:Aluminum
keywords: Al(3+); Fluorescent sensor; PET; Theoretical calculations