N-doped carbon dots covalently functionalized with pillar[5]arenes for Fe3+ sensing

Jia Gao; Ming-Xue Wu; Dihua Dai; Zhi Cai; Yue Wang; Wenhui Fang; Yan Wang; Ying-Wei Yang

doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.123

N-doped carbon dots covalently functionalized with pillar[5]arenes for Fe³⁺ sensing

Beilstein J Org Chem. 2019 Jun 7:15:1262-1267. doi: 10.3762/bjoc.15.123. eCollection 2019.

Authors

Jia Gao¹, Ming-Xue Wu¹, Dihua Dai¹, Zhi Cai¹, Yue Wang², Wenhui Fang², Yan Wang¹, Ying-Wei Yang^{1

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Affiliations

¹ State Key Laboratory of Inorganic Synthesis and Preparative Chemistry, International Joint Research Laboratory of Nano-Micro Architecture Chemistry (NMAC), College of Chemistry, Jilin University, 2699 Qianjin Street, Changchun 130012, P. R. China.
² International Joint Research Center for Nanophotonics and Biophotonics, School of Science, Changchun University of Science and Technology, 7089 Satellite Road, Changchun 130022, China.
³ The State Key Laboratory of Refractories and Metallurgy, School of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430081, P. R. China.

Abstract

Fluorescent N-doped carbon dots (CN-dots) covalently functionalized with carboxylatopillar[5]arene (CP[5]), namely CCDs, have been prepared the first time. Compared with CN-dots without pillarene units, the newly constructed ﬂuorescent CCDs could recognize Fe³⁺ with high selectivity. Therefore, such CCDs can potentially serve as a promising chemical sensor for Fe³⁺ ions.

Keywords: CN-dots; chemical sensor; fluorescence; ion recognition; supramolecular chemistry.