Novel Easily Available Purine-based AIEgens with Colour Tunability and Applications in Lipid Droplet Imaging

Overview

Journal Chem Sci

Publisher Royal Society of Chemistry

Specialty Chemistry

Date 2019 Jan 17

PMID 30647889

Citations 5

Authors

Lei Shi

Kun Li

Ling-Ling Li

Shan-Yong Chen

Meng-Yang Li

Qian Zhou

Nan Wang

Xiao-Qi Yu

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Abstract

Recently, tetraphenylethene, triphenylamine and other man-made core AIE luminescent materials (AIEgens) have attracted significant scientific interest. However, the design and synthesis of natural product based, facile and color tunable AIEgens remains challenging. Herein, a novel series of AIEgens based on purine-core molecular rotors is reported, which can be facilely synthesized and shows color tunable emission. Moreover, these purine-based AIEgens exhibit lipid droplet specific properties in live cellular imaging with low background, high selectivity and excellent biocompatibility.

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