Chemical Name

Phenol, 4,4'-(3H-2,1-benzoxathiol-3-ylidene)bis[2-chloro-, S,S-dioxide

InChI Key

WWAABJGNHFGXSJ-UHFFFAOYSA-N

Solubility

Soluble in water (30 mg/ml), ethanol (80 mg/ml), and methyl cellusolve (50 mg/ml).

Product Description:

Chlorophenol red is an indicator dye that changes color from yellow to violet in the pH range 4. 8 to 6. 7.

Applications:

Chlorophenol red is used in the frozen food industry for monitoring storage temperature changes. Chlorophenol red is a pH indicator that can also detect chlorine dioxide in drinking water. Chlorophenol red has a narrow pH range (5.2-6.8 or so) when the solution is applied to dry paper, and somewhat broader (4.8-6.4 or so; different suppliers give different figures) when the solution is in a beaker to which solutions or slurries are added. Chlorophenol Red was tested many naturally aged book papers using a chlorophenol red solution, and reported a visual transition interval of pH 6.0 to 6.7.In the presence of chlorophenol red (CPR) and H₂O₂, the absorption maximum at 435 nm decreased upon addition of Fe²⁺, resulting in a significant color change of the CPR solution from yellow to colorless. The chemosensor system did not show significant responses to a series of other metal ions including Al³⁺, Zn²⁺, Cd²⁺, Hg²⁺, Mn²⁺, Co²⁺, Fe³⁺, Ni²⁺, Cu²⁺, La³⁺, Ce⁴⁺, Th⁴⁺, Pd²⁺, Pb²⁺, Sb³⁺, Cr³⁺, Au³⁺, Ag⁺, Nd³⁺, Sm³⁺, alkali and alkaline earth metal cations, allowing for highly selective naked-eye detection of Fe²⁺. Quantitative analysis was carried out kinetically for practicable the Fe²⁺ assay when either fixed time method or the initial rate method was applied. When the detecting time was set, the decrease of absorbance signal was linear with Fe²⁺ concentration in the range of 0 to 7.50 × 10^-5 mol L^-1 and the regression equation was ?A = 0.00759 + 0.00593C_Fe with a correlation coefficient r = 0.9953. The chemodosimetric system has employed an irreversible Fenton reagent-promoted oxidation of the CPR free chromophore and the hydroxyl radicals were generated in the presence of both Fe²⁺ and hydrogen peroxide. The mechanistic interpretation of the signaling process was partially confirmed by the radical scavenging experiment and the FT-IR analysis of the intermediates formed at different reaction periods.