121st General Meeting of the KCS

Type Poster Presentation
Area Organic Chemistry
Room No. Event Hall
Time 4월 19일 (목요일) 11:00~12:30
Code ORGN.P-402
Subject Turn on pH-Sensitive Fluorescent Probes and its Applications
Authors Kyeong-Im Hong, Woo-Dong Jang*
Department of Chemistry, Yonsei University, Korea
Abstract

Generally, most of the developed fluorescent probes exhibit emission changes in a target specific manner with various mechanism such as photo induced electron transfer (PET), aggregation induced emission (AIE), and fluorescent resonance energy transfer (FRET). Excited-state intramolecular proton transfer (ESIPT) is recently attracting the attention of scientists because it shows a remarkably large stokes shift to solve the problems caused by self-absorption1-2. We have synthesized a new type of thiophene bearing ESIPT fluorescent probes (TEPs). The ESIPT probes clearly showed dual emission behavior in response to solvent polarity. Moreover, it showed pH responsive absorption and fluorescence emission changes in aqueous phase. Among them, dithiophene-bearing ESIPT probe (2) exhibited turn-on fluorescence emission as increasing pH above physiological condition. Finally, we have demonstrated response of the application of dithiophene-bearing ESIPT probe (2) on biological specimen. We have successfully visualized the mitochondrial compartment and specific bacteria owing to the higher pH. Detailed aspect of this system will be discussed in this symposium

E-mail hkyeongim@yonsei.ac.kr