An acyclic amino-receptor based bi-fluorophoric signaling system 3 exhibits water-induced simultaneous dual channel chromogenic and fluorogenic signal modulation. Its micromolar solution in various organic solvents exhibits an enhancement in absorption in the presence of water in trace amounts through the water-induced delactonization of rhodamine dye, rendering a visual perception as a function of colour change. The presence of water molecules also facilitates a fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) from the excited nitro-benz-oxa-diazole fluorophore to rhodamine dye of 3 and leads to an enhancement of emission up to a second order of magnitude. The failure of the reference compounds 2 and 4 to respond under similar conditions reveals the role of structural variation of the receptor on the perturbation of photophysical processes.
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