A new synthetic protocol for coumarin amino acid

• Xinyi Xu,
• Xiaosong Hu and
• Jiangyun Wang

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2013, 9, 254–259, doi:10.3762/bjoc.9.30

• applications related to it [2][3][4][5][6][7][8]. Compound 1a is of great interest to scientists because the 7-hydroxycoumarin moiety has a high fluorescence quantum yield and a large Stokes shift. Its excellent fluorescence properties make it a great candidate to substitute green fluorescent protein (GFP) in

• the dye BODIPY-Fl to study the dynamics of protein–protein interactions [2]. Wang and co-workers genetically incorporated 1a to a position near to amino acids, which can be phosphorylated to investigate how phosphorylation affects the fluorescence properties of 1a, and the variation in the

• . The separation and purification processes are much easier and an HPLC purification step is unnecessary. Thus, it is more economical and less tedious compared with previously reported protocols. 6-Halogenated coumarin non-natural amino acids have different fluorescence properties and other

Syntheses and applications of furanyl-functionalised 2,2’:6’,2’’-terpyridines

• Jérôme Husson and
• Michael Knorr

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 379–389, doi:10.3762/bjoc.8.41

• complex 62, which bears a thiocyanato group at the para-position (Scheme 11). Because of the presence of a thiocyanato moiety in its structural motif and due to its fluorescence properties, compound 62 could be used potentially as a labelling agent for biomolecules. In fact, reaction between the reactive

Synthesis, solid-state fluorescence properties, and computational analysis of novel 2-aminobenzo[4,5]thieno[3,2-d]pyrimidine 5,5-dioxides

• Kenichirou Yokota,
• Masayori Hagimori,
• Naoko Mizuyama,
• Yasuhisa Nishimura,
• Hiroshi Fujito,
• Yasuhiro Shigemitsu and
• Yoshinori Tominaga

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 266–274, doi:10.3762/bjoc.8.28

Fluorescent hexaaryl- and hexa-heteroaryl[3]radialenes: Synthesis, structures, and properties

• Antonio Avellaneda,
• Courtney A. Hollis,
• Xin He and
• Christopher J. Sumby

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 71–80, doi:10.3762/bjoc.8.7

• anions [17]. The fluorescence of hexaaryl[3]radialenes has not been widely studied [42]. Solutions of compound 1 visibly fluoresce bright blue; its fluorescence maximum being 467 nm in dichloromethane with a Stokes shift of 124 nm (Table 2). The absorption and fluorescence properties of compound 3 had to

• nature of the [3]radialene core to act as anion receptors. The useful electrochemical and fluorescence properties of these compounds may allow them to be employed as building blocks of anion sensors. Experimental General experimental Melting points were determined using a Gallenkamp variable heat melting

Imidazole as a parent π-conjugated backbone in charge-transfer chromophores

• Jiří Kulhánek and
• Filip Bureš

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 25–49, doi:10.3762/bjoc.8.4

• the fluorescence properties of this family of imidazoles [36]. In addition to the work of Moylan and Bu, several other groups, mainly from Asia, reported the synthesis and application of Y-shaped imidazole-derived CT chromophores. Wang and co-workers investigated simple tripodal chromophores 9a–d with

Synthesis of dye/fluorescent functionalized dendrons based on cyclotriphosphazene

• Aurélien Hameau,
• Sabine Fuchs,
• Régis Laurent,
• Jean-Pierre Majoral and
• Anne-Marie Caminade

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 1577–1583, doi:10.3762/bjoc.7.186

• derivative 7. The deprotection was carried out as described above to afford the dendron 12 (Scheme 4). UV–vis absorption spectra and fluorescence properties Having in hand five different dendrons, we recorded the UV–vis spectra in 1,4-dioxane. As expected, each family affords a coherent series of spectra. In

• fluorescent dendrons were synthesized and their fluorescence properties studied. One of them, 10 is both soluble in organic solvents and in water, and displays novel behaviour in mixtures of solvent (dioxane/water). Variations in the fluorescence quantum yield of its dansyl groups must be related to

Chromo- and fluorophoric water-soluble polymers and silica particles by nucleophilic substitution reaction of poly(vinyl amine)

• Katja Hofmann,
• Ingolf Kahle,
• Frank Simon and
• Stefan Spange

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2010, 6, No. 79, doi:10.3762/bjoc.6.79

• accessible narrow-size pores. Solvatochromic and fluorescence properties Interactions of solvatochromic dyes with pure solvents or solvent mixtures are a combination of many effects [41][42][43][44]. We wanted to investigate the influence of the PVAm on the chromophoric and fluorophoric π-electron system of

Synthesis, electronic properties and self-assembly on Au{111} of thiolated (oligo)phenothiazines

• Adam W. Franz,
• Svetlana Stoycheva,
• Michael Himmelhaus and
• Thomas J. J. Müller

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2010, 6, No. 72, doi:10.3762/bjoc.6.72

• reversible formation of stable radical cations [26][27][28][29][30][31], their tunable redox and fluorescence properties [32][33][34], and their tendency to self-assemble on surfaces by π–π interactions [35] make them eligible for use as redox-switchable molecular entities. In addition, the inherent folded