“…The sensor was applied to detect changes in Cu(II) in HeLa cells incubated in growth medium supplemented with 50 μM CuCl 2 . From this starting point, many similar hydrazide Cu(II) probes that employ rhodamine ring-opening strategies have been developed and applied to detect exogenous addition of Cu(II) in various cell types such as rhodamine B variants with dimethylaminovinylbenzene ( 252 ), ethyl hydroxide (RO1; 253 ), 2-methylpiperidine ( 254 ), Furan-2-carbaldehyde ( 255 ), 3-chloropyridazine ( 256 ), or benzyl-methyl-triazole (RHT; 257 ) substitutions, or a bis-spirocyclic configuration ( 258 ); rhodamine 6G variants with methanethioamide ( 259 ), ethyl hydroxide ( 260 ), tert -butylpyrrolyl methanimine ( 261 ), or trifluoroacetaldehyde substitutions ( 262 ); and fluorescein variants with pyridinylmethanimine (FHP; 263 ) and nitrobenzo-oxadiazole substitutions (NF; 264 ) . Other hydrazide variants have employed rhodamines with extended π-conjugation for a red-shifted emission such those with a vinylbenzonitrile (CSCN-Cu; 265 ), a naphthylamine (BF-Cu; 266 ), a carbazole (MeCzR-Cu; 267 ), a biscarbazole (BCX-Cu; 268 ), a benzimidazole with a six-membered spirocyclic hydrazide (BiF-Cu; 269 ), a quinazolinone (RQNA; 270 ), a benzene (FLACu; 271 ), a diethyl-tetrahydroquinoxaline/julolidine (JRQN; 272 ), and a quinoline (QFH; 273 ) …”