¹Ruby Ahmed,²Farman Ali

^1,2Dept of Applied Chemistry ZHCET, AMU, Aligarh

Literature surveys of fluorophores for sensing nitroaromatic compounds, during past ten years have been done. Fluorophores have been classified in various categories, based on their structure and their mechanism of sensing is discussed.

Picric acid, Fluorophores, sensors, Limit of detection, KSV

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