Asymmetric trimethine 3H-indocyanine dyes: efficient synthesis and protein labeling

Fengling Song, Li Wang, Xiaoqiang Qiao, Bingshuai Wang, Shiguo Sun, Jiangli Fan, Lihua Zhang, Xiaojun Peng

Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry · 2010 · 10 citations · 10 references

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Abstract

We present an efficient method to synthesize three new asymmetric trimethine cyanine dyes containing only one carboxylic acid group for bioconjugation. Two of them have better protein labeling performance than other conventional cyanine dyes due to their particular structure design.

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