Development of Selective Colorimetric Probes for Hydrogen Sulfide Based on Nucleophilic Aromatic Substitution

Modern Nucleophilic Aromatic Substitution

NBD-based colorimetric and fluorescent turn-on probes for hydrogen sulfide.

Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) is an important endogenous signalling molecule and also an important environmental target for detection. New reaction-based colorimetric and fluorescent turn-on probes based on selective thiolyling of NBD (7-nitro-1,2,3-benzoxadiazole) ether were explored for sensing of H2S in aqueous buffer. The syntheses of both probes are simple and quite straightforward. The probes ar...

Synthesis of polynitroxides based on nucleophilic aromatic substitution.

The scope and limitations of the synthesis of polynitroxides by nucleophilic substitution of electron-deficient fluorinated aromatic compounds are described. The method provides a facile route to the formation of polynitroxides exhibiting strong electron exchange between nitroxide groups.

A selective colorimetric and ratiometric fluorescent probe for hydrogen sulfide.

A reaction-based colorimetric and ratiometric fluorescent probe based on an ICT-strategy for selective detection of H(2)S that exploited the H(2)S-mediated reduction of nitrocompound to amines was explored. And it displayed high selectivity for H(2)S over other relevant reactive sulfur, oxygen, nitrogen species and other anions with more than 120 nm blue shift and the change of emission intensi...

A colorimetric and fluorescent dual probe for specific detection of cysteine based on intramolecular nucleophilic aromatic substitution.

4-Nitro-1,8-naphthalic anhydride (NNA) was used to distinguish cysteine from homocysteine and other potentially interfering thiols through a novel sequential substitution mechanism. The discrimination involves a blue-fluorescent thioether formation via nucleophilic aromatic substitution of the nitro group by thiol, followed by a second intramolecular nucleophilic aromatic substitution of alkylt...