Polycondensation of a perylene bisimide derivative and L-malic acid as water-soluble conjugates for fluorescent labeling of live mammalian cells

• Main Authors: He, Ji, Chen, Huixin, Guo, Yanjia, Wang, Liang, Zhu, Lingli, Chen, Yuan, Karahan, Huseyin Enis
• Other Authors: School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Facile Synthesis; Perylene Bisimide
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/86560; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/45322
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Based on simple mixing and polymerization of a hydroxyl-containing derivative of perylene bisimide (PBI) and l-malic acid, here, we demonstrate a new type of dye-polymer conjugate, PBI-poly(α,β-malic acid) (PBI–PMA). Benefiting from the excellent water-solubility of weak polyanionic PMA structure an...