A simple turn-on fluorescent chemosensor for CO2 based on aggregation-induced emission: Application as a CO2 absorbent screening method

摘要

An alpha-cyanostilbene-based fluorescent chemosensor, which includes a primary amine, was developed for the quantitative analysis of CO2 in solution. (Z)-3-(4-(3-Aminopropoxy)phenyl)-2-(4-nitrophenyl)acrylonitrile (1) reacts with CO2 and enables a turn-on type CO2 chemosensor with increased fluorescence due to aggregation-induced emission. More importantly, 1 required no additives such as an amine media for detecting CO2, and the limit of detection was estimated to be similar to 26 ppm. This system was successfully applied to determine the relative efficiency of CO2 absorbents dependent on the fluorescence change in 1. The use of this chemosensor as a CO2 absorbent screening method suggests that 1 may be used to develop a high-throughput screening method for the evaluation of high-performance CO2 absorbents.