In the title compound, C(23)H(26)O(3), the three six-membered rings of the xanthene system are non-planar, having total puckering amplitudes, Q(T), of 0.443 (2), 0.202 (2) and 0.449 (2) Å. The central ring adopts a boat conformation and the outer rings adopt sofa conformations. The crystal structure is stabilized by van der Waals inter-actions.

We report a reversible off/on fluorescent probe for monitoring concentration changes of sulfane sulfur by utilizing the unique ability of sulfane sulfur to bind reversibly to other sulfur atoms and the intramolecular spirocyclization reaction of xanthene dyes. It reversibly visualized sulfane sulfur in living A549 cells and primary-cultured hippocampal astrocytes.

The title compound, C(15)H(12)O(3), was obtained unintentionally as the by-product of an attempted recrystallization from methanol of propantheline bromide, an anti-muscarinic drug. The xanthone unit is folded, with a dihedral angle of 24.81 (9)° between the benzene rings. The ester substituent adopts a trans staggered conformation, with a C-C-O-C torsion angle of 178.4 (1)°. The mol-ecules pac...

Wide energy gap materials dispiro[fluorene-9,9?-anthracene-10?,9?-fluorene] (SAS) and dispiro[xanthene-9,9?-anthracene-10?,9?-xanthene] (XAX) containing double spiro–carbons, are introduced as hosts for blue phosphorescent organic light-emitting diodes (PHOLEDs). Both SAS XAX free of heteroatomic exocyclic bonds, which implicated in limiting the stability PHOLEDs. The synthesized gram-scale qua...

In the title compound, C(31)H(25)ClO(3), the central ring of the xanthene core shows a shallow boat conformation, while the outer six-membered rings display envelope conformations. The dihedral angle between the outer aromatic rings is 88.1 (3)° and the dihedral angles between the chloro-benzene ring and the two phenyl rings are 69.5 (2) and 69.6 (2)°.

A xanthene-forming condensation reaction yields rhodol and rhodamine dyes carrying a zinc-binding ligand that includes the aniline-type nitrogen donor of the fluorophores. Upon zinc coordination in neutral aqueous solution, rhodol RF3 behaves as a ratiometric sensor, and rhodamine RA1 acts as a turn-off intensity-based indicator. Both fluorescent compounds bind the divalent zinc cation with mic...