DOI: 10.1039/d6cc04991e ISSN: 1359-7345

Cucurbituril-modulated NIR emission and two-photon mitochondrial imaging of an acridine derivative

Xin Lin, Jing Wu, Fang-Fang Shen, Le-Tian Duan, Shengqian Wang, Ze-Lin Zhang, Ke-Han Chen, Hua-Jiang Yu, Renjie Song

Host–guest assemblies of an acridine dye with CB[7] and CB[8] give distinct NIR emissions at 674 and 708 nm, with efficient two-photon excitation at 920 nm for mitochondrial imaging.