A twin-axial pseudorotaxane for phosphorescence cell imaging

Xin-Kun Ma; Ying-Ming Zhang; Qilin Yu; Haoyang Zhang; Zhiyuan Zhang; Yu Liu

doi:10.1039/d0cc06717b

A twin-axial pseudorotaxane for phosphorescence cell imaging

Chem Commun (Camb). 2021 Feb 4;57(10):1214-1217. doi: 10.1039/d0cc06717b.

Authors

Xin-Kun Ma¹, Ying-Ming Zhang¹, Qilin Yu², Haoyang Zhang¹, Zhiyuan Zhang¹, Yu Liu¹

Affiliations

¹ College of Chemistry, State Key Laboratory of Elemento-Organic Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, P. R. China. yuliu@nankai.edu.cn.
² Key Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology and Technology, College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin, P. R. China.

PMID: 33416814
DOI: 10.1039/d0cc06717b

Abstract

A twin-axial pseudorotaxane is constructed using a phenylpyridine salt with diethanolamine (DA-PY) and cucurbit[8]uril (CB[8]), and it not only displays phosphorescence in aqueous solution but it can also be used for targeted cell-imaging.

MeSH terms

A549 Cells
Humans
Luminescent Agents / chemical synthesis*
Luminescent Agents / chemistry
Luminescent Agents / metabolism
Rotaxanes / chemical synthesis*
Rotaxanes / chemistry
Rotaxanes / metabolism
Single-Cell Analysis / methods*

Substances

Luminescent Agents
Rotaxanes