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SUBMITTER: Friscourt F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3525324 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of the American Chemical Society 20121102 45
Fluorogenic reactions in which non- or weakly fluorescent reagents produce highly fluorescent products can be exploited to detect a broad range of compounds including biomolecules and materials. We describe a modified dibenzocyclooctyne that under catalyst-free conditions undergoes fast strain-promoted cycloadditions with azides to yield strongly fluorescent triazoles. The cycloaddition products are more than 1000-fold brighter compared to the starting cyclooctyne, exhibit large Stokes shift, an ...[more]