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In this work, we firstly reported that water-soluble thiacalix[4]arene tetrasulfonate (TCAS) exhibited selective chromogenic recognition towards copper(II) ion over other transition metal ions. Color change from colorless to salmon pink was observed in TCAS solution, weak bathochromic shift was induced in UV absorption spectrum of TCAS upon addition of copper(II) ion, and the absorbance of characteristic absorption band at 312 nm increased linearly with copper(II) ion concentration. The recognition mechanism of TCAS to copper(II) ion was investigated by a comparative study with calix[4]arene tetrasulfonate (CAS) and time-dependent density functional theory(TD-DFT) study, and the absorption bands were assigned based on transition orbital analysis.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/molecules25030612","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,1,31]],"date-time":"2020-01-31T05:55:46Z","timestamp":1580450146000},"page":"612","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["Selective Chromogenic Recognition of Copper(II) Ion by Thiacalix[4]arene Tetrasulfonate and Mechanism"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"25","author":[{"given":"Shufang","family":"Zhu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Resource and Environmental Engineering, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430081, China"},{"name":"State Key Laboratory of Refractories and Metallurgy, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430081, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5722-0504","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Lilin","family":"Lu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Resource and Environmental Engineering, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430081, China"},{"name":"Hubei Province Key Laboratory of Coal Conversion and New Carbon Materials, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430081, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,1,30]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"209","DOI":"10.1021\/pr070480u","article-title":"Occurrence of Copper Proteins through the Three Domains of Life: A Bioinformatic Approach","volume":"7","author":"Andreini","year":"2008","journal-title":"J. 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