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Novel easily available purine-based AIEgens with colour tunability and applications in lipid droplet imaging
Lei Shi1, Kun Li1, Ling-Ling Li1
1Key Laboratory of Green Chemistry and Technology , Ministry of Education , College of Chemistry , Sichuan University , Chengdu , China 610064 . Email: kli@scu.edu.cn ;
Abstract:
Recently, tetraphenylethene, triphenylamine and other man-made core AIE luminescent materials (AIEgens) have attracted significant scientific interest. However, the design and synthesis of natural product based, facile and color tunable AIEgens remains challenging. Herein, a novel series of AIEgens based on purine-core molecular rotors is reported, which can be facilely synthesized and shows color tunable emission. Moreover, these purine-based AIEgens exhibit lipid droplet specific properties in live cellular imaging with low background, high selectivity and excellent biocompatibility.
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