[EN] NEAR INFRARED CHEMILUMINESCENT ACRIDINIUM COMPOUNDS AND USES THEREOF<br/>[FR] COMPOSES D'ACRIDINIUM CHIMILUMINESCENTS DANS LE PROCHE INFRAROUGE ET SES UTILISATIONS
申请人:BAYER AG
公开号:WO2000009487A1
公开(公告)日:2000-02-24
Our results thus identify two sets of necessary and sufficient criteria for observing long-wavelength emission from acridinium compounds: Set A: (a) the creation of an extended conjugation system by the attachment of appropriate functional groups on the acridinium nucleus (electronic requirement). (b) Coplanarity of the attached functional group and the acridone moiety during light emission (geometry requirement). (c) Said functional group must consist of at least one aromatic ring and one electron-donating atom or group with an extra pair of electrons which can readily delocalize into the extended π system to which the heteroatom is directly attached or built into, and establish stable extended resonance with the electron-withdrawing carbonyl moiety of the light emitting acridone. Such electron-donating atom or group that exists in the form of an anion has particularly strong effect to further the bathochromic shift of the emission wavelength. Set B: (a) A direct attachment at one or more of positions C-2, C-4, C-5, or C-7 of the acridinium nucleus, of electron-donating atoms or groups having extra pair(s) of electrons. The electron-donating entities can be the same or different if more than one electron-donating entity is used. Such electron-donating atom or group that exists in the form of an anion has particularly strong effect to further the bathochromic shift of the emission wavelenth. For molecules for which the above criteria are met such as LEAE, 3-HS-DMAE, and 2-hydroxy-DMAE long wavelength-emission exceeding 500 nm and reaching into NIR region is expected and observed. Preferably, the utility of an NIR-AC of comparable quantum yield as the conventional acridinium compounds goes hand-in-hand with the employment of a luminescence detector of good to excellent detection efficiency. To achieve efficient NIR signal detection and facilitate the performing of diagnostic assays, a further objective of the present invention is the advance of a concept and the realization of substituting a state-of-the-art charge-coupled device (CCD) detector for the red-insensitive photomultiplier tube (PMT) in a conventional fully or semi-automatic analyzer such as MLA-II of Chiron Diagnostics, Walpole, MA.