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Molecularly imprinted ratiometric fluorescent probe for visual and fluorescent determination of aristolochic acid I based on a Schiff-base fluorescent compound

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A molecularly imprinted ratiometric fluorescent probe (MIRF probe) was synthesized for the determination of aristolochic acid I (AAI) based on the Schiff-base fluorescent compound N,N′-bis(o-carboxybenzylidene)-p-4,4′-diaminobiphenyl (BDDB). The BDDB was immobilized in the silica nanoparticle (BDDB@SiO2) as an internal standard material. The blue-emitting BDDB@SiO2 and the yellow-emitting carbon quantum dots (y-CDs) were wrapped in the molecularly imprinted polymer (MIP) to provide a reliable reference signal at 440 nm and a fluorescent response signal at 530 nm at the excitation wavelength of 365 nm, respectively. In the preparation of the MIP of the MIRF probe, 4-vinylbenzoic acid as the functional monomer and AAI as the template molecule were used. An imprinting factor of 2.25 was obtained. Under the optimum conditions, the fluorescent response signal at 530 nm was quenched gradually by AAI in the range 1.0 to 120.0 μmol/L, while the reference signal at 440 nm remained unchanged. The limit of detection was 0.45 μmol/L, and the fluorescent color of the MIRF probe changed gradually from yellow to green to blue, which illustrated that the developed probe had a specific AAI recognition ability, a good anti-interference ability, and a sensitively visual determination ability. The probe was successfully applied to the AAI determination in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) Asarum. The results showed that it had satisfactory recoveries (95.5–107.3%) and low relative standard deviations (2.0%). Furthermore, this method has a potential for the onsite naked eye determination of AAI in TCM samples.

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This work was supported by the Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation (No. 2019A1515012169) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 81573678).

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    Jianping Ye, Xin Cai, Qing Zhou, Zhihong Yan & Kang Li

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Ye, J., Cai, X., Zhou, Q. et al. Molecularly imprinted ratiometric fluorescent probe for visual and fluorescent determination of aristolochic acid I based on a Schiff-base fluorescent compound. Microchim Acta 187, 623 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00604-020-04598-9

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