Novel surfactant-like pyrene derivatives: synthesis, fluorescent properties and sensing applications

The application of two novel newly designed and prepared surfactant-like pyrene derivatives in the transition of the aggregates of amphiphilic compounds, especially between micelles and vesicles, were investigated systematically by using the compounds as probes. Meanwhile, one of them also shows selective sensing to the presence of lanthanum ion and europium ion, and the detection limits (DL) are 1.48 and 1.14 ppm, respectively.