The evaluation of the association constant between R-SN and Hg(2+).

The effective determination of heavy metals from environmental media is among the most important issues for many industrialized countries. The interaction between RS-N, as novel heavy metal probe, and metal ions was studied. RS-N shows selective color change from colorless to pink in the presence of Hg(2+) in methanol/water solvent and the UV-Vis study shows peak at 560 nm. Fluorescence data revealed that the fluorescence enhance of RS-N by Hg(2+) dramatically was the result of the formation of [Hg(2+)]RS-N complex. The effective association constants (K a ) were 3.97 × 10(5) and 0.204 × 10(5) M(-1) for Hg(2+) and Cu(2+) to RS-N, respectively. The thermodynamic parameters, enthalpy change (ΔH (0)) and entropy change (ΔS (0)), were calculated to be -6.431 ± 0.226 kJ/mol and -0.129 ± 0.008 J/K/mol, respectively, according to van't Hoff equation on the basis of Gibbs free energy (ΔG (0)) ranged from -33.8326 to -28.5389 kJ/mol.