Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a method of cancer treatment that leads to the disintegration
of cancer cells and has developed significantly in recent years. The clinically used …

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 …

Cyanine dyes are widely used as fluorescent probes in biophysics and medical biochemistry
due to their unique photophysical and photochemical properties (their photonics). This …

The expanding scope of chemical reactions applied to nucleic acids has diversified the
design of nucleic acid-based technologies that are essential to medicinal chemistry and …

Diacylhydrazine bridged anthranilic acids with aryl and heteroaryl domains have been
synthesized as the open flexible scaffold of arylamide quinazolinones in order to investigate …

A new red hair-inspired 1, 4-benzothiazine-based scaffold is disclosed herein, built upon a
modular D-π-A architecture via condensation of the easily accessible 3-phenyl-2 H-1, 4 …

Nucleic acids, as important substances for biological inheritance, have attracted extensive
attention in the biomedical field. More and more cyanine dyes are emerging as one of the …

A heptamethine fluorophore, ERB-60, has been synthesized efficiently in four steps in a
good yield. The structure of this fluorophore consists of an electron-donating group …

For the first time, we have developed a strategy that provides an access to imidazo [1, 2-a]
pyridines via the cyclization of 2-aminopyridine with mucobromic acid as C3 synthon. In the …

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