Chemical two-photon fluorescence
We describe a method based on a caged fluorescent molecule that can act as a chemical two-photon probe. It is composed of an organic fluorophore and a ruthenium-bipyridine complex that acts as a photoremovable quencher. For the fluorophore to be emissive, two independent photons must act on the mole...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2015 |
| País: | Argentina |
| Institución: | Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas |
| Repositorio: | CONICET Digital (CONICET) |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/59222 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/11336/59222 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Two Photon https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.4 https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1 |
| Sumario: | We describe a method based on a caged fluorescent molecule that can act as a chemical two-photon probe. It is composed of an organic fluorophore and a ruthenium-bipyridine complex that acts as a photoremovable quencher. For the fluorophore to be emissive, two independent photons must act on the molecule: the first photon frees the fluorescent ligand from the Ru complex and the second photon excites the fluorescence. In this two-photon regime, the emission is not proportional to the excitation intensity but rather to its second power, as in traditional two-photon systems based on ultrashort pulsed high-power lasers. This quadratic relationship implies a much higher spatial precision on the z-axis when the probe is used in a microscopy technique. The chemical nature of the two-photon excitation mechanism allows the use of inexpensive low-power lasers. |
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