“…4,5 Though the whole process is well regulated, however, a slight over production of hypochlorite may result in the accumulation of ClO À in living systems which eventually generates oxidative stress and hence can cause various neurodegenerative and cardiovascular diseases and cancer. [6][7][8] Over the last few years, a variety of reaction-based fluorescent probes involving irreversible changes around carbon-carbon, [9][10][11][12][13][14] carbon-nitrogen, 15,16 carbonsulphur, 17,18 and carbon-oxygen 19 bonds have been reported for the detection of hypochlorite (Table S1, ESI †). The reaction-based strategy is efficient but hypochlorite induced irreversible chemical changes are introduced in the probe as a result of which the probe is rendered useless after its first application.…”