Front Cover: Green and Red Fluorescent Dyes for Translational Applications in Imaging and Sensing Analytes: A Dual‐Color Flag (ChemistryOpen 1/2018)

Green and Red Fluorescent Dyes for Translational Applications in Imaging and Sensing Analytes: A Dual‐Color Flag

Invited for this month's cover picture is the BIOSCOPE group of Professors Carlos Lodeiro and José Luis Capelo at the REQUIMTE/UCIBIO-LAQv-FCT University NOVA of Lisbon (Portugal), and their collaborators. The cover picture is devoted to Translational Research, and shows the Portuguese Flag represented by the interaction between cells and Janus gold/silver nanoparticles functionalized with rhod...

Cover Picture: Fluorinated Boron-Dipyrromethene (BODIPY) Dyes: Bright and Versatile Probes for Surface Analysis (ChemistryOpen 1/2013)

COVER PICTURE Mandy Hecht, Tobias Fischer, Paul Dietrich, Werner Kraus, Ana B. Descalzo, Wolfgang E. S. Unger, and Knut Rurack* Retrieving quantitative molecular information from macroscopic areas in a reliable manner at micrometric resolution is a challenging task, yet essential for a better understanding and control of the assembly of (bio)chemical entities on a functional surface. In their F...

Front Cover: Rhodol Derivatives as Selective Fluorescent Probes for the Detection of HgII Ions and the Bioimaging of Hypochlorous Acid (ChemistryOpen 2/2018)

Polypeptide micelles with dual pH activatable dyes for sensing cells and cancer imaging.

pH is an important control parameter for maintenance of cell viability and tissue functions. pH monitoring provides valuable information on cell metabolic processes and the living environment. In this study, we prepared dual pH-sensitive, fluorescent dye-loaded polypeptide nanoparticles (DPNs) for ratiometric sensing of pH changes in living cells. DPNs contain two types of dyes: N-(rhodamine B)...

Photophysical Responses of Benzimidazolic and Benzoxazolic HydroxyCoumarin Dyes

We synthesized four novel benzoxazolic and benzimidazolic derivatives of 6-hydroxycoumarin and their photophysical properties were studied. The products with brilliant yellow color shades declared green fluorescence. The emission peaks of the products appeared 456–474 nm. The important characteristic for fluorescent compounds, the Stokes shift νA-νF, oscillator strength f, and fluorescence quan...