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[Display omitted] • A novel pyrazoline fluorescent probe 1 was synthesized. • It can be used to detect Zn2+/ Cd2+ with high sensitivity and high selectivity. • It has good fluorescence reversibility. • It can be applied to fluorescent Zn2+/ Cd2+ imaging in living cells. A novel multi-response pyrazoline-based fluorescent probe 1 was designed and synthesized with a very simple molecular structure, which exhibited high sensitivity for detecting Zn2+ and Cd2+ in ethanol aqueous solution state based on the dissuasion of intramolecular charge transfer (ICT) and chelation-enhanced fluorescence (CHEF) effect. The binding modes of the complexes were determined to have 1:1 complexation stoichiometry and the binding constants were calculated to be 1.284 × 104 M−1 for Zn2+ and 4.313 × 103 M−1 for Cd2+ using the nonlinear curve-fitting method. Zn2+ and Cd2+ sensor have high anti-interference ability. Under optimal conditions, the detection limits were determined to be 0.9274 μM for Zn2+ and 0.8158 μM for Cd2+. Notably, the probe was found to have good biological compatibility and was employed to detect Zn2+/ Cd2+ in living Hela cells. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

[Display omitted] • A novel pyrazoline fluorescent probe N was synthesized. • It can be used to detect Cu2+ with high sensitivity and high selectivity. • It can be applied to fluorescent Cu2+ imaging in living cells. • The color of probe N changed with Cu2+ by naked-eye. In this study, a new pyrazoline derivate (1-acetyl-3- (2-hydroxy-1-naphthyl)-5-(2-phenyl-2H-chromene)-2-pyrazoline, N) is described as fluorescent probe for fluorometric detection of Cu2+. This fluorescence of probe has a high selectivity only toward Cu2+ ion in the other metal ions. It is remarkably observed that the fluorescence intensity of N decreased in the presence of Cu2+ ions with a strong capability to resist perturbations. The Limit of detection (LOD) value is calculated as 8.85 × 10−7 M for Cu2+ while the complexation constant is calculated as 3.14 × 105 M−2 via fluorescence measurements. The interaction between of N and Cu2+ is reversible after adding PPi. The optimized calculation of the probe for Cu2+ is confirmed by TD-DFT calculations. N-Cu2+ is successfully applied in the intracellular imaging in living PK-21 cells that will have a great chance for wide application. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]