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Chemical Communications

Direct validation of the restriction of intramolecular rotation hypothesis via the synthesis of novel ortho-methyl substituted tetraphenylethenes and their application in cell imaging†

Guo-Feng Zhang,a   Ze-Qiang Chen,a   Matthew P. Aldred,*a   Zhe Hu,a   Tao Chen,a   Zhenli Huang,a   Xianggao Meng*b  and  Ming-Qiang Zhu*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, School of Optical and Electronic Information, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei, China
E-mail: mqzhu@hust.edu.cn, mpaldred@hotmail.com
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b Key Laboratory of Pesticide and Chemical Biology of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, Hubei 430079, China
E-mail: mengxianggao@mail.ccnu.edu.cn

Abstract

We demonstrate a novel synthetic approach to ortho-methyl substituted tetraphenylethene materials, which can be utilised for directly validating the restriction of intramolecular rotation hypothesis as the basic mechanism of aggregation-induced emission phenomenon and cell imaging.

Graphical abstract: Direct validation of the restriction of intramolecular rotation hypothesis via the synthesis of novel ortho-methyl substituted tetraphenylethenes and their application in cell imaging

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C4CC04241G
Article type
Communication
Submitted
03 Jun 2014
Accepted
09 Jul 2014
First published
09 Jul 2014

Chem. Commun., 2014,50, 12058-12060

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Direct validation of the restriction of intramolecular rotation hypothesis via the synthesis of novel ortho-methyl substituted tetraphenylethenes and their application in cell imaging

G. Zhang, Z. Chen, M. P. Aldred, Z. Hu, T. Chen, Z. Huang, X. Meng and M. Zhu, Chem. Commun., 2014, 50, 12058 DOI: 10.1039/C4CC04241G

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