A highly strained non-luminescent dibenzo-acridinium cationic compound is identified that undergoes in acetonitrile light-induced ring closure to create a highly fluorescent, planar, eight-ringed cationic anti-aromatic dye.

By condensation of quaternary benzothiazolium, quinolinium and acridinium salts having an active methyl group with 1-(3-bromopropyl)-4-chloroquinolinium or 1-(3-bromo-2-hydroxypropyl)-4-chloroquinolinium salts in the presence of a basic agent such as triethylamine, 8 asymmetric and symmetric monomethine cyanine dyes bearing !-bromopropyl substituent with one or two positive charges, were synthe...

The asymmetric unit of the title compound, (C(13)H(10)N)(2)[PtCl(6)]·2H(2)O, contains a protonated acridine cation, one half of a [PtCl(6)](2-) dianionic complex and a solvent water mol-ecule. The octa-hedral [PtCl(6)](2-) dianion is located on an inversion centre. π-π inter-actions between neighboring acridinium cations produce stacks along the a axis; the shortest distance between the centroi...

The title compound, C(13)H(10)N(+)·C(7)H(4)NO(4) (-), consists of a protonated acridinium cation and a 6-carb-oxy-pyridine-2-carboxyl-ate monoanion. The carboxyl-ate group of the anion appears to be delocalized on the basis of the nearly equivalent C-O bond lengths. In the crystal, the anions are connected by strong O-H⋯O hydrogen bonds, forming chains along the b axis. The acridinium cations a...

The title ion pair, C(13)H(10)N(+)·C(6)H(3)N(2)O(4) (-), contains a protonated acridine cation and a 3-carb-oxy-pyrazine-2-carboxyl-ate monoanion, which are linked together through O-H⋯O, N-H⋯O and weak C-H⋯O hydrogen bonds. These hydrogen bonds generate a C(10) chain graph-set motif. The crystal structure is further stabilized by extensive π-π stacking inter-actions between nearly parallel [di...

This new one-step chemiluminescent immunoassay of free thyroxin (FT4) involving a thyroxin-immunoglobulin conjugate labeled with acridinium ester (Magic Lite System; Ciba Corning Diagnostics Corp., Medfield, MA) is rapid (one 1-h incubation), requires two calibrators per run, and takes 10 s per sample for the quantification step. Analytical performances were excellent: within- and between-run C...

As a result of their unique reactivity in numerous challenging organic transformations, acridinium salts and cyanoarenes have become the organophotocatalysts choice chemistry. This Minireview discusses synthesis these catalysts multireactivity, with special focus on mechanistic aspects.

BACKGROUND The implementation of new biomarkers into clinical practice is one of the most important areas in medical research. Besides their clinical impact, novel in vitro diagnostic markers promise to have a substantial effect on healthcare costs. Although numerous publications report the discovery of biomarkers, only a fraction of those markers are routinely used. One key challenge is a meas...