Tetraphenylethylene(TPE)-Containing Metal-Organic Nanobelt and Its Turn-on Fluorescence for Sulfide (S2-)

Kaixiu Li; Zhengguang Li; Die Liu; Mingzhao Chen; Shi-Cheng Wang; Yi-Tsu Chan; Pingshan Wang

doi:10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c00928

Tetraphenylethylene(TPE)-Containing Metal-Organic Nanobelt and Its Turn-on Fluorescence for Sulfide (S^2-)

Inorg Chem. 2020 May 4;59(9):6640-6645. doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c00928. Epub 2020 Apr 14.

Authors

Kaixiu Li¹, Zhengguang Li¹, Die Liu², Mingzhao Chen², Shi-Cheng Wang³, Yi-Tsu Chan³, Pingshan Wang^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Organic and Polymer Chemistry; Hunan Key Laboratory of Micro & Nano Materials Interface Science, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering; Central South University, Changsha, Hunan 410083, China.
² Institute of Environmental Research at Greater Bay Area; Key Laboratory for Water Quality and Conservation of the Pearl River Delta, Ministry of Education; Guangzhou Key Laboratory for Clean Energy and Materials; Guangzhou University, Guangzhou 510006, China.
³ Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University, Number 1, Section 4, Roosevelt Road, Taipei 10617, Taiwan.

PMID: 32286799
DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c00928

Abstract

A metal-organic supramolecular nanobelt was synthesized by quantitative self-assembling terpyridine-functionized tetraphenylethylene (TPE) and Cd²⁺, which only showed a weak emission both in solution or aggregated state. Nevertheless, nanobelt complex could be transferred to a fluorescence turn-on sensor to S^2- by taking advantage of the structural transformation from nanobelt to its fluorescent ligand.