The synthesis of PTE-I (>90%) was accomplished by making minor changes in the reported procedures. Furter the bay-substituted mono-brominated derivative of perylene-3,4,9,10-tetracarboxylic tetraoctyl ester (PTE-11) was synthesized via controlled bromination of PTE-I at temperature 8-10 o C in dichloromethane. The synthesis of probe PTE-EA was achieved by following the nucleophilic substitution reaction of 2-AE with PTE-II, under neat reaction conditions (Scheme 1). In molecular structure of simply designed probe PTE-EA, the 2-AE which is present attached at the mono bayposition of perylene core via -NH acting as both electron donor and recognition unit for Cu 2+ .