This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 21161018, 21262032, 21574104), the Program for Chang Jiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University of Ministry of Education of China (No. IRTI177).
We synthesized a new cyanide (CN-) chemosensor CX based on a nucleophilic addition reaction prompted by cyanide ion, which could be used for highly selective and sensitive fluorescence turn-on detection of cyanide i...