Synfacts 2008(6): 0587-0587  
DOI: 10.1055/s-2008-1067051
Synthesis of Materials and Unnatural Products
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Lighting-up Live Cells

Contributor(s): Timothy M. Swager, Trisha L. Andrew
M. J. Hangauer, C. R. Bertozzi*
University of California and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, USA
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Publication History

Publication Date:
21 May 2008 (online)

Significance

The initially non-fluorescent compound, 1, releases a highly fluorescent compound upon reaction with an azide functional group under biologically safe conditions.