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  • Title: Involvement of a unique chemodosimeter in the selective estimation of noxious cyanide in common water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes): an environmental refinement.
    Author: Saha S, Ghosh P, Mondal P, Chattopadhyay A, Sahoo P.
    Journal: Environ Sci Process Impacts; 2021 Sep 23; 23(9):1308-1315. PubMed ID: 34286814.
    Abstract:
    A naphthaldehyde-pyridoxal conjugated chemodosimeter (NPLC) was developed and employed for the sensitive and selective detection and estimation of cyanide in common water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes), a free floating macrophyte used in the phytoremediation process since ancient times. The non-fluorescent nature of the probe NPLC, directed by the possibility of excited state intramolecular proton transfer process (ESIPT), was promptly changed due to CN- induced di-deprotonation of the probe. The naked eye color change and turn on vivid fluorescent color of NPLC was attributed to the inhibition of the ESIPT mechanism in the deprotonated NPLC (NPLC-D). The selective detection of cyanide ion in the nanomolar range (81 nM), among other interfering anions, makes it exclusive. The involvement of the probe in a chemodosimetric fashion toward cyanide was elucidated by experimental and computational studies.
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