A new versatile solvatochromic amino-macrocycle. From metal ions to cell sensing in solution and in the solid state

Gianluca Ambrosi; Samuele Ciattini; Mauro Formica; Vieri Fusi; Luca Giorgi; Eleonora Macedi; Mauro Micheloni; Paola Paoli; Patrizia Rossi; Giovanni Zappia

doi:10.1039/B913435B

A new versatile solvatochromic amino-macrocycle. From metal ions to cell sensing in solution and in the solid state†

Gianluca Ambrosi,^a Samuele Ciattini,^b Mauro Formica,^a Vieri Fusi,*^a Luca Giorgi,^a Eleonora Macedi,^a Mauro Micheloni,*^a Paola Paoli,^c Patrizia Rossi^c and Giovanni Zappia^d

Author affiliations

* Corresponding authors

^a Institute of Chemical Sciences, University of Urbino, P.zza Rinascimento 6, I-61029 Urbino, Italy
E-mail: vieri.fusi@uniurb.it

^b CRIST, University of Florence, Via della Lastruccia 3, I-50019 Sesto F.no, Florence, Italy

^c Department of Energy Engineering, University of Florence, Via S. Marta 3, I-50139 Florence, Italy

^d Institute of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Urbino, P.zza Rinascimento 6, I-61029 Urbino, Italy

Abstract

A new fluorescent NBD-polyaza-macrocycle sensor (L) was synthesized. The coordination of Cu(II) and Zn(II) in acetonitrile switches on the fluorescence with different emission wavelengths. Cu(II) complexes showed solid-state fluorescence. Both L and Cu-complex interact with human cell line (U937) highlighting the cell membrane by fluorescence microscopy.

Chemical Communications

A new versatile solvatochromic amino-macrocycle. From metal ions to cell sensing in solution and in the solid state†

Abstract

Supplementary files

Article information

Download Citation

Permissions

A new versatile solvatochromic amino-macrocycle. From metal ions to cell sensing in solution and in the solid state

Social activity

Search articles by author

Spotlight

Advertisements