“…Over the past several years, electrochemical analysis, chromogenic detection, and gas chromatography have been widely reported in detecting CO. − Despite desirable sensitivity, they are unfit for detection of CO in living systems, owing to the complicated pretreatment and potential destruction of biological samples. Recently, fluorescent probes have been widely applied for imaging of various analytes in living cells, tissues, and organisms due to their simple operation and little biodamage. − So far, many CO probes have been successfully designed by researchers, but most of them are turn-on types, which could suffer from a range of factors including the concentration of probe, pH, temperature, instrument efficiency, etc. − For example, Feng et al developed an allyl-chloroformate-functionalized turn-on fluorescent probe based on fluorescein for CO in living cells (Figure A) . By contrast, a fluorescent probe with ratiometric character can overcome these problems effectively by self-calibration via two emission bands.…”