“…Detection limit of R1 and R2 was compared with some reported chemosensors for Cu 2+ , Hg 2+ , and Pb 2+ (Table 3) (Ranyuk et al, 2009;Jiang et al, 2011;Huo et al, 2013;Kim et al, 2013;Leea et al, 2013;Lin et al, 2013;Tang et al, 2013;Wang et al, 2013). While each chemosensor showed some advantages such as easy synthesis, high sensitivity, no interference (Ranyuk et al, 2009;Kim et al, 2013;Lin et al, 2013) naked eye detection and application in living cell imaging. Our receptor R1 and R2 exhibited quite appealing analytical features such as easy synthesis, dual sensing methods (naked eye and fluorescence detection), and simultaneous multiple cation sensing (R1 = Cu 2+ , Hg 2+ , R2 = Hg 2+ , Pb 2+ , and Sn 2+ ).…”