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Item Highly sensitive fluorescent imidazolium-based sensors for nanomolar detection of explosive picric acid in aqueous medium(Elsiever, 2016-06-28) Sakhuja, Rajeev; Pant, Debi D.Two novel fluorescent coumaryl linked imidazolium salts have been synthesized, characterized and found to be highly selective for nanomolar detection of commonly used explosive picric acid, over other aromatic explosives in aqueous medium. The compounds are highly photostable and are practically applicable for sensing picric acid in real environmental samples, in presence of interfering aromatic/non-aromatic explosives and metal ions. In solution, the high sensitivity of the sensors toward picric acid can be predominantly attributed to the ground-state charge-transfer complex formation based on UV–vis studies, time resolved fluorescence results and DFT calculations.Item Detection of Hg2+ ions in aqueous medium using an indole-based fluorescent probe: Experimental and theoretical investigations(Elsiever, 2017-12) Sakhuja, Rajeev; Pant, Debi D.Mercury pollution is a widespread danger to human health and environment. Due to limitations associated with the existing Hg2+ chemosensors, development of new, efficient and selective chemosensors capable of sensing mercury ions in aqueous medium remains a demanding area of research. In this regard, an indole-based fluorescent probe has been synthesized and characterized by detailed spectroscopic analysis. The probe showed a high selectivity and sensitivity towards Hg2+ by giving significant fluorescence quenching over other tested cations in H2O/DMF (7:3, v/v) medium. The association constant (Ka) was 6.4 × 103 M− 1 between sensor and Hg2+. The detection limit of sensor to Hg2+ was found to be 0.143 μM (143 nM). The experimental results have been verified with Density Functional Theory.