Chem. J. Chinese Universities ›› 2015, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (10): 1924.doi: 10.7503/cjcu20150128

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Synthesis, Crystal Structure and Spectral Properties of Six Indole Dimethine Cyanines as Well as Their Biological Application

ZHANG Jianghua, LÜ Ying, JIA Hongliang, SONG Yinyin, SUN Xiaoxia, CHAI Dunxiao, WANG Lanying*()   

  1. Key Laboratory of Synthetic and Natural Functional Molecule Chemistry, Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry and Materials Science, Northwest University, Xi’an 710127, China
  • Received:2015-02-04 Online:2015-10-10 Published:2015-09-14
  • Contact: WANG Lanying E-mail:wanglany@nwu.edu.cn
  • Supported by:
    † Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.21272184) and the Development Project of Science and Technology Research of Shaanxi Province, China(No.2012K07-06)

Abstract:

Six novel bis(N-alkyl) indole dimethine cyanine dyes(C1—C6) were synthesized using heterocyclic quaternary ammonium salts with active methyl and N-methyl-3-indole formaldehyde as starting materials and piperidine as catalyst. The dyes were identified by UV-Vis, 1H NMR, IR and HRMS and the crystal structures of dyes C1 and C5 were determined by X-ray single crystal diffraction analyzer. The investigation of the spectral properties of dyes C1—C6 in different solvents showed that the maximum absorption wavelength of the dyes was in the range of 370.0—521.0 nm, the emission wavelength was located in 466.4—600.8 nm and the molar extinction coefficients was in the range of 0.80×104—3.92×104 L·mol-1·cm-1 in different solvents. The interactions of dyes C1—C6 with DNA, bovine serum albumin(BSA), muramidase, amylase, bovine hemoglobin and chymotrypsin were investigated, respectively. The results showed that the spectral properties of dyes C3, C4 and C5 were significantly changed with the addition of DNA and the quantum yields of the dyes were increased with the increase of DNA concentration. The investigation of the cytotoxicity and cell staining of the selected dyes C5 and C6 showed that the two dyes had virtually no toxicity at applications dose and time and could stain cell nucleus, suggesting that the dyes C5 and C6 could be used as potential fluorescent reagents to observe living cells.

Key words: Indole dimethine cyanine, Crystal structure, Spectral property, Biomolcule, Cytotoxicity and cell staining

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