Table 3 Reproducibility of the spectroscopic pH sensing method using different buffers.

From: Amino-isocyanoacridines: Novel, Tunable Solvatochromic Fluorophores as Physiological pH Probes

A375/A359

I376/I362

pHSet

pHAbs

pHPL

1.031 ± 0.003

1.043 ± 0.002

0.986 ± 0.006

1.005 ± 0.008

6.01

6.24 ± 0.06

5.98 ± 0.002

6.06 ± 0.03

5.97 ± 0.04

1.000 ± 0.002

1.020 ± 0.011

0.814 ± 0.004

0.857 ± 0.008

6.49

6.63 ± 0.01

6.42 ± 0.15

6.55 ± 0.01

6.45 ± 0.02

0.914 ± 0.003

0.934 ± 0.004

0.562 ± 0.002

0.623 ± 0.002

7.00

7.10 ± 0.01

7.02 ± 0.02

7.06 ± 0.00

6.94 ± 0.00

0.772 ± 0.011

0.751 ± 0.006

0.367 ± 0.019

0.365 ± 0.001

7.51

7.52 ± 0.03

7.57 ± 0.02

7.55 ± 0.07

7.56 ± 0.00

0.589 ± 0.006

0.565 ± 0.002

0.272 ± 0.001

0.267 ± 0.002

8.00

7.97 ± 0.02

8.03 ± 0.05

8.03 ± 0.01

8.08 ± 0.02

0.445 ± 0.009

0.440 ± 0.007

0.234 ± 0.001

0.231 ± 0.001

8.50

8.45 ± 0.04

8.47 ± 0.03

8.54 ± 0.03

8.60 ± 0.02

0.395 ± 0.002

0.377 ± 0.006

0.219 ± 0.002

0.219 ± 0.001

9.00

8.75 ± 0.02

8.91 ± 0.06

9.17 ± 0.23

9.19 ± 0.11

  1. NaH2PO4/Na2HPO4 (normal text) NaH2BO3/Na2HBO3 (italic text). pHSet, pHAbs, and pHPL are the pH(s) determined using a pH meter, from the UV-vis and the fluorescence spectrum, respectively. cbuffer = 0.05 M in both cases.