Fluorescent Carbonyl Dyes

At first sight, it may seem somewhat surprising that such small molecules should provide such a high degree of thermal and chemical stability and insolubility. These properties have been explained, however, by strong two-dimensional molecular association due to hydrogen bonding 

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Recently, novel polymethine carbonyl-dyes based on coumarin moiety and their boron difluoride complexes 9a-d and lOa-d [34—36] were evaluated as fluorescent dyes for the detection of native proteins using bovine serum albumin (BSA) as a model protein, and as probes for the nonspecific detection of proteins using a BSA/ sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) mixture [37]. Optical properties of these compounds in the absence and presence of BSA, as well as in SDS and BSA/SDS mixture, were measured in Tris-HCl buffer (pH 8.0) (Table 1). 

Utilization of resonance effects can facilitate unenhanced Raman measurement of surfaces and make the technique more versatile. For instance, a fluorescein derivative and another dye were used as resonantly Raman scattering labels for hydroxyl and carbonyl groups on glassy carbon surfaces. The labels were covalently bonded to the surface, their fluorescence was quenched by the carbon surface, and their resonance Raman spectra could be observed at surface coverages of approximately 1%. These labels enabled assess to changes in surface coverage by C-OH and C=0 with acidic or alkaline pretreatment [4.293]. 

The H-bonds formed with proton acceptors by carbonyls incorporated into aromatic heterocycles can be of two types strong and weak. Both of them can dramatically change the spectra and the latter are observed when the strong bonds are already at saturation [21]. In the presence of strong intramolecular bonds, the intermolecular bonds (such as in 3-hydroxychromone derivatives) are only weak, and they do not reorganize in the excited state. In this way, a fluorescent dye can serve as the H-bonding sensor [22]. 

Free formaldehyde is reacted with acetylacetone in the presence of an excess of an ammonium salt to form the yellow fluorescent compound, 3,5-diacetyl-1,4-dihydrolutidine and subsequently determined spectrophotometrically in methods A-E (14). In these methods, the test sample must be colorless and free from other carbonyl compounds. Some other derivatives have been used to analyze formaldehyde. For example, formaldehyde was reacted with sodium 4,5-dihydroxy-2,7-naphthalene disulfonate in sulfuric acid solution to yield a purple color (580 nm) and then subjected to colorimetric analysis. A purple-colored pararosaniline derivative was used to analyze formaldehyde in air (15). Air sample was passed through an aqueous solution which contained 0.4% of 3-methyl-2-benzothiazolone hydrazone hydrochloride and then a dye produced was determined at 635 or 670 nm (16). Molecular sieve (1.6 mm pettet) was used to trap formaldehyde in air samples. The formaldehyde... 

Chemiluminescence and photoluminescence in diatomic iron oxide, Rb2, and alkali-metal dimers with halogen atoms and metal vapour-oxidant flames,202 203 lifetime measurements of selectively excited states of diatomic hydrides,204 photodissociation of alkali-metal halide vapours,206 spin-orbit relaxation of the HTe ( 2IIi) radical,20 the photodecomposition of metal carbonyl anions such as [Mn(C04)] in the vapour phase,207 and the fluorescence of Rhodamine 6G in the vapour phase 208 have been studied in recent reports. In the last study it was concluded that an insufficient concentration of the fluorescing dye could be maintained in the vapour phase to permit laser action to occur. 

Chromophoric markers were afforded by the synthesis, through Bt technology, of azo dye-labeled terpenes, sugars, and steroids (2009S1708), and fluorescent detection of biological thiols such as L-cysteine, glutathione, and L-penicillamine was achieved by reaction with N-coumarin-3-carbonyl benzotriazoles (2011S1494). 

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