A new fluorogenic and chromogenic probe rhodamine B spirolactam (1) was developed that in aqueous solutions exhibited a highly selective and sensitive "turn-on" type spectral response toward NO detection following a NO-induced spiro-ring opening reaction in 1.
Key Laboratory of Analytical Sciences, Ministry of Education, and Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China. hzheng@xmu.edu
