Recent advances in formaldehyde-responsive fluorescent probes

Publication date: Available online 19 July 2017 Source:Chinese Chemical Letters Author(s): Zhiqiang Xu, Jianhua Chen, Lin-Li Hu, Ying Tan, Sheng-Hua Liu, Jun Yin Formaldehyde, as one of the simplest reactive carbonyl species (RCS), is regarded as a potential carcinogen and a sick house syndrome gas. Recent studies have shown that abnormally high levels of formaldehyde may result in cognitive decline and spatial memory deficits, asthmatic symptoms, Alzheimer's disease, and cancer. Due to the harmfulness of high levels of formaldehyde in nature and humans, it is of great significance to further elucidate the roles and functions of formaldehyde by a non-invasive detection approach. Fluorescence imaging has become a powerful and popular tool in monitoring bio-species owing to their high sen...

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