Frontiers in Chemistry (Nov 2021)

Synthesis and Discovery of Schiff Base Bearing Furopyrimidinone for Selective Recognition of Zn2+ and its Applications in Cell Imaging and Detection of Cu2+

  • Yanggen Hu,
  • Chao Luo,
  • Lili Gui,
  • Jing Lu,
  • Juncai Fu,
  • Xinya Han,
  • Junkai Ma,
  • Lun Luo

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3389/fchem.2021.774090
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9

Abstract

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A simplefuro [2,3-d]pyrimidinone-based Schiff base FPS was synthesized via aza-Wittig reaction and structure elucidation was carried out by spectroscopic studies FT-IR, 1H NMR, and 13C NMR and mass spectrometry. FPS showed weak fluorescence emission in methanol and the selectivity of FPS to different metal ions (Mn2+, Ca2+, Fe2+, Fe3+, Mg2+, Al3+, Ba2+, Ag+, Co2+, Na+, K+, Cu2+, Zn2+, Pb2+, Bi3+) were studied by absorption and fluorescence titration. The results show that FPS has selective fluorescence sensing behavior for Zn2+ ions and the limit of detection (LOD) was calculated to be 1.19 × 10–8 mol/L. Moreover, FPS-Zn2+ acts as a metal based highly selective and sensitive new chemosensor for Cu2+ ions and the LOD was calculated to be 2.25 × 10–7 mol/L. In accordance with the results and theoretical calculations, we suspected that the binding mechanisms of FPS to Zn2+ and Cu2+ were assigned to be the cooperative interaction of Zn2+(Cu2+)-N.

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