A structural remedy toward bright dipolar fluorophores in aqueous media
| Autor: | Basab Roy, Jae Woo Park, Dokyoung Kim, Youn Ho Shin, Young Min Rhee, Subhankar Singha, Alla Sreenivasa Rao, Taejun Wang, Jin Yong Kim, Taiha Joo, Ki Hean Kim, Junyang Jung, Sunderraman Sambasivan, Kyo Han Ahn, Hyunsoo Moon |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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genetic structures
Chemistry Hydrogen bond Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Substituent Physics::Optics Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics General Chemistry Photochemistry Fluorescence Dipole chemistry.chemical_compound Microscopy Amine gas treating Physics::Chemical Physics Absorption (chemistry) Luminescence Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics |
| Zdroj: | CHEMICAL SCIENCE(6): 7 Chemical Science |
| ISSN: | 2041-6539 2041-6520 |
| DOI: | 10.1039/c5sc01076d |
| Popis: | Structural factors governing the poor emission of dipolar dyes in aqueous media are identified, leading to new acedan derivatives with brighter fluorescence and enhanced two-photon properties. The donor–acceptor (D–A) type dipolar fluorophores, an important class of luminescent dyes with two-photon absorption behaviour, generally emit strongly in organic solvents but poorly in aqueous media. To understand and enhance the poor emission behaviour of dipolar dyes in aqueous media, we undertake a rational approach that includes a systematic structure variation of the donor, amino substituent of acedan, an important two-photon dye. We identify several factors that influence the emission behaviour of the dipolar dyes in aqueous media through computational and photophysical studies on new acedan derivatives. As a result, we can make acedan dyes emit bright fluorescence under one- and two-photon excitation in aqueous media by suppressing the liable factors for poor emission: 1,3-allylic strain, rotational freedom, and hydrogen bonding with water. We also validate that these findings can be generally extended to other dipolar fluorophores, as demonstrated for naphthalimide, coumarin and (4-nitro-2,1,3-benzoxadiazol-7-yl)amine (NBD) dyes. The new acedan and naphthalimide dyes thus allow us to obtain much brighter two-photon fluorescent images in cells and tissues than in their conventional forms. As an application of these findings, a thiol probe is synthesized based on a new naphthalimide dye, which shows greatly enhanced fluorescence from the widely used N,N-dimethyl analogue. The results disclosed here provide essential guidelines for the development of efficient dipolar dyes and fluorescence probes for studying biological systems, particularly by two-photon microscopy. |
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