A polyamine-modified near-infrared fluorescent probe for selective staining of live cancer cells
Sandra G König1, Simin Öz, Roland Krämer
1Universität Heidelberg, Anorganisch-Chemisches Institut, Im Neuenheimer Feld 270, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany. Roland.Kraemer@urz.uni-heidelberg.de.
Abstract:
We report the synthesis of novel polyamine-modified near-infrared (NIR) probes, which show excellent water-solubility and good optical properties. One probe was taken up efficiently by living cancer cell lines whereas no staining of the non-cancer cells was observed.


