The present invention provides methods and compositions for detecting, identifying and measuring the abundance of chemical nerve agents. Methods and compositions of the present invention are capable of providing selective detection of phosphorous based nerve agents, such as nerve agents that are esters of methyl phosphonic acid derivatives incorporating a moderately good leaving group at the phosphorus. Selectivity in the present invention is provided by a sensor composition having an alpha (α) effect nucleophile group that undergoes specific nucleophilic substitution and rearrangement reactions with phosphorus based nerve agents having a tetrahederal phosphorous bound to oxygen. The present invention includes embodiments employing a sensor composition further comprising a reporter group covalently linked to the alpha effect nucleophile group allowing rapid optical readout of nerve agent detection events, including direct visual readout and optical readout via spectroscopic analysis.
                            本发明提供了检测、鉴定和测量
化学神经毒剂丰度的方法和组合物。本发明的方法和组合物能够选择性地检测基于
磷的神经毒剂,例如在
磷酸甲基衍
生物中包含中等良好的离去基的神经毒剂。本发明的选择性是通过传感器组合物提供的,该组合物具有α效应亲核基团,该亲核基团与四面体
磷酸盐结合的含氧基团的神经毒剂进行特定的亲核取代和重排反应。本发明包括采用传感器组合物的实施方式,该传感器组合物进一步包括与α效应亲核基团共价连接的报告基团,从而允许快速的神经毒剂检测事件的光学读出,包括直接视觉读出和通过光谱分析的光学读出。