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The alkyne-SP was conjugated with a bis(triethylene glycol)-benzyl group (EG-BtSP) or a simple benzyl group (BtSP), forming a triazole linkage from the click reaction. The effects of auxiliary groups to SP were tested on metal-ion sensing and cyanide detection. We found that EG-BtSP was more Ca2+-sensitive than BtSP in acetonitrile, which were thoroughly examined by a continuous variation method (Job plot) and UV-VIS titrations, followed by non-linear regression analysis. Although both SPs showed similar, selective responses to cyanide in a water\/acetonitrile co-solvent, only EG-BtSP showed a dramatic color change when fabricated on paper, highlighting the important contributions of the auxiliary groups.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s17081816","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2017,8,9]],"date-time":"2017-08-09T06:32:14Z","timestamp":1502260334000},"page":"1816","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":10,"title":["Tuning Sensory Properties of Triazole-Conjugated Spiropyrans: Metal-Ion Selectivity and Paper-Based Colorimetric Detection of Cyanide"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"17","author":[{"given":"Juhyen","family":"Lee","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Chemistry, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Gyeonggi 16419, Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Eun","family":"Choi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Chemistry, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Gyeonggi 16419, Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Inwon","family":"Kim","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Chemistry, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Gyeonggi 16419, Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Minhe","family":"Lee","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Chemistry, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Gyeonggi 16419, Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Chinnadurai","family":"Satheeshkumar","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Graduate School of Nanoscience and Technology, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Daejeon 34141, Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Changsik","family":"Song","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Chemistry, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Gyeonggi 16419, Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2017,8,7]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"148","DOI":"10.1039\/C3CS60181A","article-title":"Spiropyran-based dynamic materials","volume":"43","author":"Klajn","year":"2014","journal-title":"Chem. 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