Synthesis of a dihalogenated pyridinyl silicon rhodamine for mitochondrial imaging by a halogen dance rearrangement

• Jessica Matthias,
• Thines Kanagasundaram,
• Klaus Kopka and
• Carsten S. Kramer

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 2333–2343, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.226

• ; mitochondrial probe; near-infrared (NIR) dyes; one-pot reaction; silicon rhodamines; Introduction Since their first synthesis by Fu and co-workers in 2008 [1], silicon xanthenes and the subsequently developed silicon rhodamines (SiR) have drawn a lot of attention as attractive fluorescence dyes offering a