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RSC ADVANCES
Volume 8, Issue 31, Pages 17535-17550Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c8ra02658k
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- CSIR-New Delhi
- UGC-New Delhi
- SERB-New Delhi
- DST-Nano Mission
- DAE-Mumbai
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Fluorescence chemo-sensors for species of environmental and biological significance have emerged as a major research area in recent years. In this account, we describe fluorescence quenching as well as enhancement-based chemo-sensors obtained by employing C3-symmetric 1,3,5-triphenylbenzene (1,3,5-TPB) as the fluorescence signalling unit. 1,3,5-TPB is a thermally and photochemically stable fluorescent platform with pi-electron-rich characteristics. Starting from this platform, supramolecular, discrete, triphenylbenzene-carbazole, covalent-organic framework, covalent-organic polymer and conjugated polymer based sensors have been developed for the selective detection of polynitroaromatic compounds, trinitrotoluene (TNT), dinitrotoluene (DNT) and picric acid (PA). Tris-salicylaldimine Schiff bases have been synthesized for the selective sensing of fluoride ions through a fluorescence turn-on mechanism. It is likely that it should be possible to develop other highly selective and sensitive chemosensors by incorporating 1,3,5-TPB as the fluorophore unit.
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