Issue 13, 2011
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Chemical Communications

Water-soluble and fluorescent dendritic perylene bisimides for live-cell imaging†

Baoxiang Gao,*a   Hongxia Li,a   Hongmei Liu,a   Licui Zhang,a   Qianqian Baia  and  Xinwu Baa  

* Corresponding authors

a Key Laboratory of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Diagnosis, Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry and Environmental Science, Hebei University, Baoding, P. R. China
E-mail: bxgao@hbu.edu.cn
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Abstract

We prepared dendritic perylene bisimide probes with triblock structures: perylene bisimides fluorescence cores, branched oligo(glutamic acid)s and polyethylene glycol chains. These probes showed good water solubility, low cytotoxicity and strong fluorescence in live cells.

Graphical abstract: Water-soluble and fluorescent dendritic perylene bisimides for live-cell imaging

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C1CC00058F
Article type
Communication
Submitted
05 Jan 2011
Accepted
03 Feb 2011
First published
21 Feb 2011

Chem. Commun., 2011,47, 3894-3896

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Water-soluble and fluorescent dendritic perylene bisimides for live-cell imaging

B. Gao, H. Li, H. Liu, L. Zhang, Q. Bai and X. Ba, Chem. Commun., 2011, 47, 3894 DOI: 10.1039/C1CC00058F

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