112-35-6Relevant articles and documents
Squaraine-derived rotaxanes: Highly stable, fluorescent near-IR dyes
Arunkumar, Easwaran,Fu, Na,Smith, Bradley D.
, p. 4684 - 4690 (2006)
Squaraines are fluorescent, near-IR dyes with promising photo-physical properties for biomedical applications. A limitation with these dyes is their inherent reactivity with nucleophiles, which leads to loss of the chromophore. Another drawback is their tendency to form nonfluorescent aggregates in water. Both problems can be greatly attenuated by encapsulating the dye inside an amide-containing macrocycle. In other words, the squaraine becomes the thread component in a Leigh-type rotaxane, a permanently in terlocked molecule. Two new rotaxanes are described: an analogue with four tri(ethyleneoxy) chains on the squaraine to enhance water solubility, and a rotaxane that has an encapsulating macrocycle with transposed carbonyl groups. An X-ray crystal structure of the latter rotaxane shows that the macrocycle provides only partial protection of the electrophilic cyclobutene core of the squaraine thread. The stabilities of each compound in various solvents, including serum, were compared with a commercially available cyanine dye. The squaraine rotaxane architecture is remarkably resistant to chemical and photochemical degradation, and likely to be very useful as a versatile fluorescent scaffold for constructing various types of highly stable, near-IR imaging probes.
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Takahashi,H.,Kuwamura,T.
, p. 623 - 626 (1973)
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Synthesis, characterization and spectroscopic properties of water soluble coumarins substituted with oligomeric alkoxy functions
Surya Prakash Rao,Babu, Mohan,Desai, Avinash
, p. 11064 - 11072 (2014)
Novel water soluble robust fluorescent coumarins substituted with oligomeric alkoxy functions were synthesized by incorporating the Blaise reaction in the key step. Mono-methylated oligomeric polyethylene glycols were subjected to a three step protocol, namely (i) Michael addition to acrylonitrile, (ii) Blaise reaction with ethyl bromoacetate and (iii) condensation with 4-N,N-diethylamino-2-hydroxybenzaldehyde to give fluorescent water soluble coumarins. Water solubility of the coumarins increased with the number of oxygen atoms in the side chain. However, even the most water soluble coumarin in this series can be readily extracted out of water with organic solvents like dichloromethane or ethyl acetate. Both absorption and emission spectra, recorded in four solvents, namely, hexane (non-polar), ethyl acetate (moderately polar), methanol (polar protic) and water (highly polar and protic) displayed a bathochromic shift of the absorption (Δλmax ≈ 25 nm) and emission (Δλmax ≈ 57 nm) bands with increasing solvent polarity. The Δλmax of emission is more pronounced than the Δλmax of absorption, which indicates intramolecular charge-transfer (ICT) is less in the ground state compared to the excited state. Emission spectra recorded in these four solvents showed that fluorescent intensity is maximum in ethyl acetate.
Bis-TEGylated poly(p-benzamide)s: Combining organosolubility with shape persistence
Schulze, Maren,Michen, Benjamin,Fink, Alke,Kilbinger, Andreas F. M.
, p. 5520 - 5530 (2013/08/23)
The synthesis of perfectly planar, bis-substituted aromatic polyamides is reported herein. With highly flexible triethylene glycol chains attached and conformational restriction through intramolecular, bifurcated hydrogen bonds these are among the most shape-persistent yet organo-soluble polymers to date. Starting from 4-nitrosalicylic acid, our group developed a route to phenyl-2,5-bis-TEGylated aminobenzoate, which could be polymerized by addition of lithium bis(trimethylsilyl)amide (LiHMDS). Since this technique has not been applied to step-growth polycondensations of polyaramides so far, the influence of two different solvents and an N-protective group was investigated. Therefore, substituted phenyl aminobenzoate derivatives carrying a free amine or an N-protective group have been polymerized. Additionally, the tendency for self-assembly of the readily soluble bis-TEGylated poly(p-benzamide) was observed by transmission electron microscopy (TEM) in the dried state. Dynamic light scattering (DLS) measurements of chloroform solutions did not indicate the formation of aggregates. Thus, intermolecular interactions, which other aromatic polyamides typically exhibit, are prevented. The access to bis-substituted, entirely rigid poly(p-benzamide)s via this new polycondensation method paves the way for exciting new structures in materials science and supramolecular chemistry.
