title: Chiral Salarg and its metal complex: unique extrinsic fluorophores.
abstract: We present a fluorescence spectroscopic study of a chiral amino acid Schiff base ligand Salarg and its metal complex Mn-Salarg. This study reveals that the Salarg ligand and its metal complex have the properties of a typical extrinsic fluorophore. A detailed comparison has been made with the fluorescence spectroscopic properties of various other extrinsic and intrinsic fluorophores. It is suggested that Salarg and Mn-Salarg, which are economic, efficient, easy to synthesize and environment-friendly extrinsic fluorophores, might be used to label DNA and lipids respectively.
authors.affiliation: Laser Biomedical Application and Instrumentation Division, Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology, Indore 452013, India. gopabr@rediffmail.com
authors.forename: Gopa Barman
authors.initials: GB
authors.lastname: Roy
mesh_terms: D000596:Amino Acids / Q000737:chemistry*; D056831:Coordination Complexes / Q000737:chemistry*; D005456:Fluorescent Dyes / Q000737:chemistry*; D008345:Manganese / Q000737:chemistry*; D012545:Schiff Bases / Q000737:chemistry*; D013050:Spectrometry, Fluorescence
chemical_list: D000596:Amino Acids; D056831:Coordination Complexes; D005456:Fluorescent Dyes; D012545:Schiff Bases; D008345:Manganese