Red emissive sulfone-rhodols as mitochondrial imaging agents.
Kateryna V VygranenkoYevgen M PoronikAntoni WrzosekAdam SzewczykDaniel T GrykoPublished in: Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) (2021)
The controlled hydrolysis of sulfone-rhodamines affords a series of core-modified red-emitting rhodols, the fluorescence of which is sensitive to solvent polarity with pronounced bathochromic shifts recorded in both DMSO and CH3CN combined with an up to 8-fold increase in the fluorescence quantum yield.