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An ESIPT based naphthalimide chemosensor for visualizing endogenous ONOO in living cells

Abstract

Based on ESIPT, we designed and synthesized a naphthalimide chemosensor N-CBT for selectively visualizing endo/exogenous peroxynitrite (ONOO) in living cells. The incorporation of 2-benzothiazoleacetonitrile offers N-CBT a rare pre-existing eight-membered ring hydrogen bonding configuration, which is able to generate two types of emission of naphthalimide. Confirmed by calculation results, fast proton transfer from the hydroxyl group to the carbonyl group occurs along with excited-state energy transfer via the intramolecular H-bond, leading to a tautomeric transformation from the excited enol form to the excited keto form. In aqueous solution, the formation of intermolecular hydrogen bonding with water perturbs ESIPT and destroys the stable planar construction. By breaking the cyano carbon–carbon double bond in the presence of ONOO, green fluorescence can be regenerated efficiently. As a result, 34-fold fluorescence enhancement at 518 nm was observed in response, and it showed a good linear relationship in the range of 1 to 14 μM with a detection limit of 37 nM. Subsequently, N-CBT was applied in visualizing cellular ONOO, and it demonstrated great potential in selectively visualizing endo/exogenous peroxynitrite (ONOO) in living cells.

Graphical abstract: An ESIPT based naphthalimide chemosensor for visualizing endogenous ONOO− in living cells

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
25 Oct 2017
Accepted
23 Dec 2017
First published
08 Jan 2018
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

RSC Adv., 2018,8, 1826-1832

An ESIPT based naphthalimide chemosensor for visualizing endogenous ONOO in living cells

Y. Fu, H. Nie, R. Zhang, F. Xin, Y. Tian, J. Jing and X. Zhang, RSC Adv., 2018, 8, 1826 DOI: 10.1039/C7RA11774D

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