Potassium tert -Butoxide Promoted Intramolecular Mizoroki-Heck-Type Radical Cyclization: Photoluminescence Properties and Application in Live Cancer-Cell Imaging

Mahalingam Sivaraman, Sivakalai Mayakrishnan, Chandrasekar Balachandran, Shin Aoki, Narayanan Uma Maheswari, Paramasivan T. Perumal

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Abstract

Privileged indole-fused phenanthridinones were synthesized by an inexpensive potassium tert-butoxide-promoted intramolecular Mizoroki-Heck-type radical cyclization. This method offers high atom-and step-economic C-C bond formation. An array of the synthesized compounds showed good photoluminescence properties, and could be successfully applied as fluorescent bioprobes for imaging of living cancer cells.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)785-790
Number of pages6
JournalSynlett
Volume33
Issue number8
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 25 Apr 2022

Keywords

  • C-H bond functionalization
  • Mizoroki-Heck reaction
  • indoles
  • phenanthridinones
  • potassium tert- butoxide
  • transition-metal-free reaction

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