A novel coumarin Schiff base fluorescent probe ethyl 7-hydroxycoumarin-3-carboxylate-8-formaldehyde benzoyl hydrazone （EBH） has been designed and synthesized which shows solvent dependent dual sensing, viz., recogni...A novel coumarin Schiff base fluorescent probe ethyl 7-hydroxycoumarin-3-carboxylate-8-formaldehyde benzoyl hydrazone （EBH） has been designed and synthesized which shows solvent dependent dual sensing, viz., recognition of Ca^2＋ in DMF-H20 （9 ： 1, V/V） solution based on C=N isomerization, photoinduced electron transfer （PET） inhibition and chelation-enhanced fluorescence （CHEF） mechanism as well as detection of Zn^2＋ in HzO-CH3OH （9 ： 1, V/V） solution by excited-state intramolecular proton transfer （ESIPT） and CHEF processes. The structure of the probe EBH has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis. Meanwhile, the probe was also used to image intracellular Zn^2＋ ions in MCF-7 cells with a good performance.展开更多
基金Acknowledgement This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China （Nos. 21472148 and 21072158）, Overseas Students Science and Technology Activities Project Merit Funding of Shaanxi Province （No. 20151190） and Academic Backbone of Northwest University Outstanding Youth Support Program.
文摘A novel coumarin Schiff base fluorescent probe ethyl 7-hydroxycoumarin-3-carboxylate-8-formaldehyde benzoyl hydrazone （EBH） has been designed and synthesized which shows solvent dependent dual sensing, viz., recognition of Ca^2＋ in DMF-H20 （9 ： 1, V/V） solution based on C=N isomerization, photoinduced electron transfer （PET） inhibition and chelation-enhanced fluorescence （CHEF） mechanism as well as detection of Zn^2＋ in HzO-CH3OH （9 ： 1, V/V） solution by excited-state intramolecular proton transfer （ESIPT） and CHEF processes. The structure of the probe EBH has been confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis. Meanwhile, the probe was also used to image intracellular Zn^2＋ ions in MCF-7 cells with a good performance.
