Rational Design of Cost-Effective 4-Styrylcoumarin Fluorescent Derivatives for Biomolecule Labeling

Autor: Raquel Eustáquio, João P. Prates Ramalho, Ana Teresa Caldeira, António Pereira
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Molecules, Vol 28, Iss 19, p 6822 (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1420-3049
DOI: 10.3390/molecules28196822
Popis: Fluorescent labels are key tools in a wide range of modern scientific applications, such as fluorescence microscopy, flow cytometry, histochemistry, direct and indirect immunochemistry, and fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH). Small fluorescent labels have important practical advantages as they allow maximizing the fluorescence signal by binding multiple fluorophores to a single biomolecule. At present, the most widely used fluorescent labels available present small Stokes shifts and are too costly to be used in routine applications. In this work we present four new coumarin derivatives, as promising and inexpensive fluorescent labels for biomolecules, obtained through a cost-effective, efficient, and straightforward synthetic strategy. Density functional theory and time-dependent density functional theory calculations of the electronic ground and lowest-lying singlet excited states were carried out in order to gain insights into the observed photophysical properties.
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