The application provides a carbonyl-modified imidazo[1,2-alpha]
pyridine fluorescent probe molecule and a preparation method and application thereof, and belongs to the technical field of fluorescent probes, and aims to solve the technical problem of low sensitivity of organic small-molecule fluorescent dyes in
pesticide detection. The fluorescent probe molecule has good solvatochromic properties and
viscosity-dependent
fluorescence emission behavior, and is applied to detection of organic
pesticide DCN. The preparation process is as follows: 2-aminopyridine is used as a starting material to synthesize two compounds with different conjugation degrees through a Claisen-Schmidt reaction, an
iodine-catalyzed cyclization reaction and a
Heck reaction, and the structural formulae are as follows: in the formula, R 1 =F, Cl, Br, I, CF3, COOMe, CN, H, Me or OMe; R 2 =Cl, Br, CF3, COOMe, H, Me or OMe; R 3 =F, Cl, Br, I, CF3, H, Me or OMe; n is a positive integer between 0 and 11. The two compounds have good light-emitting properties in
tetrahydrofuran solution, and can selectively recognize organic
pesticide DCN, and are expected to become probe molecules for detecting DCN residues in actual samples.