A porous and luminescent metal-organic framework containing triazine group for sensing and imaging of Zn2+

A porous and luminescent lanthanide metal-organic framework, TbTATB, for sensing and imaging of Zn2+ was successfully synthesized. TbTATB exhibits selective and sensitive detection of Zn2+ even in the present of other relevant metal ions with the detection limit of 10.5 nM. Furthermore, TbTATB could perform as the marker of Zn2+ with the coexist of living cells.448