A highly selective and sensitive fluorescent turn-on chemosensor for Al based on a chromone Schiff base.

A Schiff-base fluorescent sensor, 7-methoxychromone-3-carbaldehyde-(3′,4′-dimethyl)pyrrole hydrazone (MCPH), was synthesized. The new sensor showed high selectivity for Al3+ over other metal ions examined in acetonitrile. Upon binding Al3+, a significant fluorescence enhancement with a turn-on ratio over 101-fold was triggered. The detection limit of MCPH for Al3+ was 2.5 × 10−7 mol L−1. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]