Fluorescence Dyes for Determination of Cyanide

Abstract

Cyanides being highly poisonous to living beings and pollutants to our environment are among the most important anions studied over the years. As cyanide usage continues to sky-rocket, it is extremely important and high time that chemists devised methods for their detection to ensure harmless usage and safer working conditions for people coming into contact with cyanide and its compounds, day in day out. In this book, an attempt has been made to provide an in-depth commentary of literature for the synthesis of fluorescent dyes and mechanisms for the molecular recognition and detection of cyanide ions. It also covers some current entropy on colorimetric and fluorescent organic chemical probes for the detection and quantification of cyanide anions via fluorogenic and chromogenic procedures.