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Carolina D Andrade1, Ciceron O Yanez, Luis Rodriguez
1Department of Chemistry, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida 32816, USA.
Abstract:
The synthesis, structural, and photophysical characterization of a series of new fluorescent donor-acceptor and acceptor-acceptor molecules, based on the fluorenyl ring system, with two-photon absorbing properties is described. These new compounds exhibited large Stokes shifts, high fluorescence quantum yields, and significantly, high two-photon absorption cross sections, making them well suited for two-photon fluorescence microscopy imaging. Confocal and two-photon fluorescence microscopy imaging of COS-7 and HCT 116 cells incubated with probe I showed endosomal selectivity, demonstrating the potential of this class of fluorescent probes in multiphoton fluorescence microscopy.
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