Multi-anthracene containing fluorescent probe for spectrofluorimetric iron determination in environmental water samples

Süreyya Oğuz Tümay; Mahsa Haddad Irani-Nezhad; Alireza Khataee

doi:10.1016/j.saa.2020.119250

Multi-anthracene containing fluorescent probe for spectrofluorimetric iron determination in environmental water samples

Spectrochim Acta A Mol Biomol Spectrosc. 2021 Mar 5:248:119250. doi: 10.1016/j.saa.2020.119250. Epub 2020 Dec 2.

Authors

Süreyya Oğuz Tümay¹, Mahsa Haddad Irani-Nezhad², Alireza Khataee³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Chemistry, Gebze Technical University, 41400 Gebze, Turkey.
² Research Laboratory of Advanced Water and Wastewater Treatment Processes, Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Tabriz, 51666-16471 Tabriz, Iran.
³ Research Laboratory of Advanced Water and Wastewater Treatment Processes, Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Tabriz, 51666-16471 Tabriz, Iran; Department of Environmental Engineering, Gebze Technical University, 41400 Gebze, Turkey. Electronic address: a_khataee@tabrizu.ac.ir.

PMID: 33316650
DOI: 10.1016/j.saa.2020.119250

Abstract

An anthracene-based fluorescence (FL) system was synthesized via a general synthetic procedure. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), MALDI-MS, and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (¹³C and ¹H NMR) were carried out to characterize the multi-anthracene containing probe. The photophysical properties of the probe were illustrated via 3D-FL analysis and excitation-emission matrix (EEM) measurements. Density-functional theory (DFT) was applied to optimize the structure of the prepared probe and investigate its molecular interactions with Fe³⁺. The FL proficiency of the probe was appraised by spectroscopic measurements like Ultraviolet-Visible (UV-Vis) and FL spectroscopies. The simple and highly sensitive probe was able to diagnose ferric ions' low concentrations and detection limit reached upto 0.223 µM with linear working range between 0.22 and 92.00 µM for Fe³⁺ ions. The efficacy of this fluorescent probe was confirmed by testing for iron determination in environmental samples. Various fluorophores or ionophores could be applied for achieving novel probes by the proposed procedures and for diagnosing diverse metal ions.

Keywords: Anthracene; Environmental water; Fluorescent probe; Multi-anthracene.