How to identify a smoker: a salient crystallographic approach to detect thiocyanate content.

ABSTRACT: There is an increasing demand for monitoring environmental pollutants and the control requires new sensing materials with better sensitivity, selectivity and reliability. In this study, a series of Co₇ clusters incorporating various flexible polyhydroxyamine ligands are explored, with the first report of thiocyanate recognition triggered by crystal formation using a Co₇ crystal (1). For this, we have fortunately synthesized three new mixed metal Co₇ clusters with fascinating structural features. The clusters were characterized by spectroscopic and single crystal X-ray diffraction methods and later by DFT calculations. Due to its better emission spectrum, 1 was further utilized for evaluating its sensing ability towards various anions in water. Surprisingly,

SUBMITTER: Iman K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9032361 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature