title: Improved push-pull-push E-Bodipy fluorophores for two-photon cell-imaging.
abstract: Quadrupolar Bodipy dyes exhibiting TPA activity and high brightness with an emission at 660 nm were synthesized and internalized in HeLa cells, whereupon FLIM experiments were conducted.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Chimie Organique et Spectroscopie Avancées (UMR7515-CNRS), Ecole de Chimie, Polymères, Matériaux (ECPM), 25 rue Becquerel, 67087 Strasbourg Cedex, France.
authors.forename: Pascal
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Didier
authors.forename: Gilles
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Ulrich
authors.forename: Yves
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Mély
authors.forename: Raymond
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ziessel
mesh_terms: D000042:Absorption; D001692:Biological Transport; D001896:Boron Compounds / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism*; D004563:Electrochemistry; D005456:Fluorescent Dyes / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism*; D006367:HeLa Cells; D006801:Humans; D017785:Photons; D013237:Stereoisomerism
chemical_list: C095489:4,4-difluoro-4-bora-3a,4a-diaza-s-indacene; D001896:Boron Compounds; D005456:Fluorescent Dyes