Bioluminescence has long been used to image biological processes in vivo. This technology
features luciferase enzymes and luciferin small molecules that produce visible light …

Highlights•Advances in bioluminescent tool production that mirror trends in fluorescent
probe development.•New bioluminescent platforms based on naturally occurring luciferases …

Bioluminescence imaging (BLI) is a newly developed noninvasive visual approach which
facilitates the understanding of a plethora of biological processes in vitro and in vivo due to …

Copper (II)-catalyzed C–H/C–H coupling of dipolar 2-H-benzothiazoles end-capped with
triphenylamine moieties affords highly fluorescent 2, 2′-bibenzothiazoles with quadrupolar …

Increasingly difficult-to-treat infections by antibiotic-resistant bacteria have become a major
public health challenge. Rapid detection of common resistance mechanisms before empiric …

Fluorescent dyes such as rhodamines are widely used to assay the activity and image the
location of otherwise invisible molecules. Si-rhodamines, in which the bridging oxygen of …

We report the K 2 S 2 O 8 catalyzed oxidative coupling of 1, 2-diaminobenzenes and primary
alcohols for the synthesis of benzimidazoles under metal-free conditions by utilizing oxygen …

Organic small molecule fluorophores have been widely used in biology and biochemistry to
study cellular structures and processes at high spatial and temporal resolution. Small …

Conspectus Bioluminescence is widely used for real-time imaging in living organisms. This
technology features a light-emitting reaction between enzymes (luciferases) and small …

Fluorescent dyes are extensively utilized in various fluorescence imaging techniques.
However, many existing modification strategies could not balance the performance (such as …