This thesis outlines a review of the history, synthetic procedures, optical properties, and
applications of quinoline-containing cyanine dyes in the first chapter. The second chapter …

Cyanine dyes carrying quinoline moieties are an important class of organic molecules that
are of great interest for applications in many fields like medicine, pharmacology, and …

Here, we report the syntheses of two pentamethine cyanine dyes containing quinolinium
rings and substituted with either hydrogen (3) or bromine (4) at the meso carbon. The …

Here we report the DNA photocleavage abilities of near-infrared (NIR) quinolinium
pentamethine carbocyanine dyes substituted with either bromine, chlorine, or hydrogen at …

Cyanine (polymethine) dyes belong to a group of organic compounds which have a large
conjugated p-system. A typical polymethine dye molecule consists of 2 nitrogencontaining …

Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a cancer treatment method in which a photosensitizer, light
of a particular wavelength, and also oxygen are used to destroy cancerous cells. Cancer …

Asymmetric monomethine cyanines have been extensively used as probes for nucleic acids
among other biological systems. Herein we report the synthesis of seven monomethine …

Herein, we report the synthesis and spectroscopic characterization of novel Near Infra-Red
(NIR) pentamethine cyanine dyes, as potential photosensitizers for Photodynamic Therapy …

Cyanine based chemosensing platforms have successfully been employed over the past
couple of decades in various fields of biomolecular sciences. Still a substantial number of …

Featured Application Potential application of unsymmetrical squaraine cyanine dyes as
cancer photodynamic therapy photosensitizers. Abstract The search to replace conventional …