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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 134, Issue 32, Pages 13510-13523Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ja305802v
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- NSFC [20872032, 20972044, 21172063]
- NCET [08-0175]
- Doctoral Fund of Chinese Ministry of Education [20100161110008]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
- Hunan University
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Near-infrared (NIR) fluorescent sensors have emerged as promising molecular tools for imaging biomolecules in living systems. However, NIR fluorescent sensors are very challenging to be developed. Herein, we describe the discovery of a new class of NIR fluorescent dyes represented by 1a/1c/1e, which are superior to the traditional 7-hydroxycoumarin and fluorescein with both absorption and emission in the NIR region while retaining an optically tunable hydroxyl group. Quantum chemical calculations with the B3LYP exchange functional employing 6-31G(d) basis sets provide insights into the optical property distinctions between 1a/1c/1e and their alkoxy derivatives. The unique optical properties of the new type of fluorescent dyes can be exploited as a useful strategy for development of NIH fluorescent sensors. Employing this strategy, two different types of NIR fluorescent sensors, NIR-H2O2 and NIR-thiol, for H2O2 and thiols, respectively, were constructed. These novel sensors respond to H2O2 or thiols with a large turn-on NIR fluorescence signal upon excitation in the NIR region. Furthermore, NIR-H2O2 and NIR-thiol are capable of imaging endogenously produced H2O2 and thiols, respectively, not only in living cells but also in living mice, demonstrating the value of the new NIR fluorescent sensor design strategy. The new type of NIR dyes presented herein may open up new opportunities for the development of NIR fluorescent sensors based on the hydroxyl functionalized reactive sites for biological imaging applications in living animals.
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