A facile channel for D-glucose detection in aqueous solution

Three facile ensembles for sensing D-glucose are designed and constructed. The ensembles are comprised of fluorescent dye (NAHBDS) and boronic acid substituted viologens (BBVs) quenchers/receptors. The sensing processes of three ensembles (NAHBDS/o-BBV, NAHBDS/m-BBV and NAHBDS/p-BBV) to D-glucose were determined by fluorescence spectra at pH 7.4 buffer solution. The results show that NAHBDS/o-BBV and NAHBDS/m-BBV ensembles embody higher sensitivity for D-glucose with reversible "on-off" fluorescence response. More importantly, the recovery of relative intensity has good linear relation to low concentration of D-glucose. The action between the ensemble with D-glucose is dynamically reversible equilibrium process. The research results provide a new mode to design highly selective probe. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.