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SUBMITTER: Sarlah D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6274339 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Šarlah David D Juranovič Amadej A Kožar Boris B Rejc Luka L Golobič Amalija A Petrič Andrej A
Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) 20160302 3
Naphthalene derivatives bearing electron-accepting and electron-donating groups at the 2,6-positions belong to the family of D-π-A push-pull dyes. It has been found that these compounds, e.g., 2-(1-(6-((2-(fluoro)ethyl)(methyl)amino)naphthalen-2-yl)ethylidene)malononitrile (FDDNP), show not only interesting optical properties, such as solvatochromism, but they have the potential to label protein aggregates of different compositions formed in the brain of patients suffering from neurodegenerative ...[more]