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Rational Design of Cost-Effective 4-Styrylcoumarin Fluorescent Derivatives for Biomolecule Labeling

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MOLECULES
Volume 28, Issue 19, Pages -

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MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/molecules28196822

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fluorescent labels; coumarin; 4-styrylcoumarin derivatives; biomolecules

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Fluorescent labels are crucial in various scientific applications, and this study introduces four promising and inexpensive coumarin derivatives as fluorescent labels for biomolecules.
Fluorescent labels are key tools in a wide range of modern scientific applications, such as fluorescence microscopy, flow cytometry, histochemistry, direct and indirect immunochemistry, and fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH). Small fluorescent labels have important practical advantages as they allow maximizing the fluorescence signal by binding multiple fluorophores to a single biomolecule. At present, the most widely used fluorescent labels available present small Stokes shifts and are too costly to be used in routine applications. In this work we present four new coumarin derivatives, as promising and inexpensive fluorescent labels for biomolecules, obtained through a cost-effective, efficient, and straightforward synthetic strategy. Density functional theory and time-dependent density functional theory calculations of the electronic ground and lowest-lying singlet excited states were carried out in order to gain insights into the observed photophysical properties.

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