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    Zhu, Hai; Geng, Tong-Mou; Tang, Kai-Bin

    Polymers, 01/2023, Volume: 15, Issue: 3
    Journal Article

    Nitrophenols are important nitroaromatic compounds, both important environmental pollutants and dangerous explosives, posing a devastating danger and pollution threat to humans. It is vital to detect efficiently trace nitrophenols in the environment. In this contribution, a series of fully flexible cyclotriphosphazene-based COFs (FFCP COFs: HDADE, HBAPB, and HBPDA), prepared with both a flexible knot and flexible linkers of different lengths, were used for sensing 2,4,6-trinitrophenol (TNP) and p-nitrophenol (p-NP) in real time with excellent sensitivity and selectivity. The quenching constants of HDADE by TNP, HBAPB, and HBPDA by p-NP are 6.29 × 10sup.4, 2.17 × 10sup.5, and 2.48 × 10sup.5 L·molsup.-1, respectively. The LODs of TNP and p-NP are 1.19 × 10sup.−11, 6.91 × 10sup.−12, and 6.05 × 10sup.−12 mol·Lsup.−1. Their sensitivities increase with the linker length, which is better than the corresponding COFs composed of rigid linkers. There is only a photoinduced electron transfer mechanism in the fluorescence quenching of HBPDA by p-NP. Meanwhile, the mechanisms of photoinduced charge transfer and resonance energy transfer exist in the fluorescence quenching of HDADE by TNP and the fluorescence quenching of HBAPB by p-NP.