Issue 48, 2018

Novel easily available purine-based AIEgens with colour tunability and applications in lipid droplet imaging

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.

Graphical abstract: Novel easily available purine-based AIEgens with colour tunability and applications in lipid droplet imaging

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Article information

Article type
Edge Article
Submitted
29 Jul 2018
Accepted
18 Sep 2018
First published
19 Sep 2018
This article is Open Access

All publication charges for this article have been paid for by the Royal Society of Chemistry
Creative Commons BY license

Chem. Sci., 2018,9, 8969-8974

Novel easily available purine-based AIEgens with colour tunability and applications in lipid droplet imaging

L. Shi, K. Li, L. Li, S. Chen, M. Li, Q. Zhou, N. Wang and X. Yu, Chem. Sci., 2018, 9, 8969 DOI: 10.1039/C8SC03369B

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