Water soluble and fluorescent copolymers as highly sensitive and selective fluorescent chemosensors for the detection of cyanide anions in biological media

J Isaad, F Malek, A El Achari

Index: Isaad, Jalal; Malek, Fouad; El Achari, Ahmida RSC Advances, 2013 , vol. 3, # 44 p. 22168 - 22175

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Abstract

We report a simple colorimetric method based on a water soluble polymer (WSP) for the sensitive and selective detection of cyanide in a biological solution. The WSPs were prepared from a radical polymerization of a methacrylate with a cyanide chemosensor moiety based on a coumarin–dicyano-vinyl derivative motif, and the polymer was then rendered water soluble by copolymerizing this hydrophobic monomer with other glyco- ...