Tetrahedron

Synthesis of fluorescent probes for localized membrane fluidity measurements

A Beck, D Heissler, G Duportail

Index: Beck, Alain; Heissler, Denis; Duportail, Guy Tetrahedron, 1991 , vol. 47, # 8 p. 1459 - 1472

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Abstract

The synthesis of two long-chain homologues of the fluorescent membrane probes TMA-DPH and DPHpPC is described. The long-chain phosphatidylcholine could be synthesized from palmitoyl-lysophosphatidylcholine and 21-(diphenylhexatrienyl) henicosanoic acid only when the promoting agent was 1, 1′-thionyldiimidazole.