Qingfu Ban, Jie Kong, Yinglai Hou, Jianxin Chen, Wen Sun, Xiaofei Zhang, Si Wu
We demonstrated an unconventional polymerization route to synthesize hydrophilic fluorescent organic nanoparticles (FONs) for multicolor cellular bioimaging in this contribution. Actually, it benefits from our unexpected discovery of a rapid polymerization reaction between 1, 6-hexanediol dipropiolate and 2, 4, 6-triazide-1, 3, 5-triazine under the catalysis of N, N, N', N", N"-pentamethyldiethylenetriamine (PMDETA). Interestingly, the 2, 4, 6-triazide-1, 3, 5-triazine and PMDETA system can also induce rapid free radical polymerization at room temperature...
April 18, 2018: Chemistry, An Asian Journal