Super-Sensitive Protonation Behavior of Trifluoroethoxy-Substituted Phthalocyanines and Their Application to Solvent Discrimination

Etsuko Tokunaga; Satoru Mori; Yuji Sumii; Norio Shibata

doi:10.1021/acsomega.8b01475

Super-Sensitive Protonation Behavior of Trifluoroethoxy-Substituted Phthalocyanines and Their Application to Solvent Discrimination

ACS Omega. 2018 Sep 10;3(9):10912-10917. doi: 10.1021/acsomega.8b01475. eCollection 2018 Sep 30.

Authors

Etsuko Tokunaga¹, Satoru Mori¹, Yuji Sumii¹, Norio Shibata^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Life Science and Applied Chemistry, Department of Nanopharmaceutical Sciences, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Gokiso, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8555, Japan.
² Institute of Advanced Fluorine-Containing Materials, Zhejiang Normal University, 688 Yingbin Avenue, 321004 Jinhua, China.

Abstract

The super-sensitive protonation behavior of trifluoroethoxy-substituted phthalocyanines (TFEO-Pcs) was carefully studied using UV-vis and fluorescence spectroscopy, as well as computational calculations. The practical utility of TFEO-Pcs in sensor technology was demonstrated by identifying chloroform samples from different commercial sources.