“…Organic functional groups sense cyanide ions both in the organic and aqueous medium. This includes the use of azine, [28] azo, [29] benzimidazole, [30] benzothiozole, [31,32] BODIFY, [33] coumarin, [34] hemicyanin, [35], imine, [36] indole, [37] malononitrile, [38] napthelene, [39,40] naphthalimides, [41] pyrene [42] and quinolone [43] based functional groups by different mechanisms with a detection range of nano to micro-molar.…”