Design, synthesis and application in biological imaging of a novel red fluorescent dye based on a rhodanine derivative

Zijing Li, Bin Huang, Yuan Wang, Wenbo Yuan, Yijing Wu, Ruitao Yu, Guichuan Xing, Taotao Zou, Youtian Tao

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Abstract

A novel acceptor-donor-acceptor type molecule, namely 2-triphenylamine-1,3-dia[2-(3-ethyl-4-oxo-thiazolidin-2-ylidene)-malononitrile] (2RDNTPA), is designed and synthesized. 2RDNTPA exhibits a large Stokes shift of 244 nm and red fluorescence emission of 629 nm with a decent photoluminescence quantum yield of 13%. Furthermore, as a potential red fluorescent dye, 2RDNTPA can be applied in fluorescence imaging of living cancer cells (HepG2) with negligible cytotoxicity and a half maximal inhibitory concentration much more than 100 μM.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)160-163
Number of pages4
JournalRSC Advances
Volume11
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 10 Dec 2020

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