Аннотация:In this work we compare the detection of various metal cations of tris(3-aminopropyl)amine derivatives; besides, chiral macrocyclic derivative of this tetraamine comprising endocyclic (S)-BINAM moiety was also studied as enantioselective fluorescence detector of model amino alcohols. The Pd(0)-catalyzed amination method for macrocyclization and the introduction of fluorophore groups has been widely used. The synthesized compounds were studied by UV- and fluorescence spectroscopy and their use asfluorescent detectors for such metal cations as Zn(II), Al(III), Hg(II), Cu(II), Pb(II) was shown to be possible due to selective changes in fluorescence spectra. Totally a panel 21 metal perchlorates was investigated. The detection ability of the chiral macrocyclic derivatives of BINAM was studied using a series of amino alcohols.