1. A novel pyrenyl-furan hydrazone on paper-based device for the selective detection of trinitrotoluene.
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Liabsungnoen, Anusorn, Mayurachayakul, Pipattra, Srikittiwanna, Kittiwat, Dungchai, Wijitar, Sukwattanasinitt, Mongkol, Srisuwannaket, Choladda, Mingvanish, Withawat, and Niamnont, Nakorn
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PHOTOINDUCED electron transfer , *TNT (Chemical) , *HYDRAZONES , *HYDRAZONE derivatives , *FLUORESCENCE spectroscopy , *FLUORESCENCE quenching , *DENSITY functional theory , *EXPLOSIVES - Abstract
A new fluorescent probe (T2) containing pyrene-hydrazone furan moieties was developed and synthesized through a two-step process and then coated onto filter paper to form a paper-based sensor for TNT detection. The T2 sensor uses photoinduced electron transfer (PET) induced fluorescence quenching to detect TNT. The sensor properties were studied using fluorescence spectra, 1H-NMR titration and density functional theory (DFT) calculations. The reaction time of the T2 paper-based sensor for TNT detection was only five minutes. A smartphone was used as an alternative instrument to detect fluorescence signals and a typical image J-processing application was employed to evaluate the grayscale values of the smartphone-captured photographs. The sensor showed a linear concentration range for TNT detection of between 30–500 μM and a detection limit of 30 μM. The T2 paper-based sensor was found to have high selectivity and sensitivity, and it can successfully detect and image TNT in actual samples. This research demonstrates that a T2 paper-based sensor is a promising alternative for TNT detection owing to its short reaction time, high selectivity, sensitivity, and easy applicability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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