Novel azobenzene derivatives containing a glucopyranoside moiety. Part I: synthesis, characterisation and mutagenic properties

Indolizines, known as a useful class of fluorophores, were bridged yielding biindolizines. We intended to obtain long wavelength absorbing and emitting fluorescent systems suitable for fluorescence labeling of biomolecules. The influence of the different kinds of coupling on the absorption and fluorescence behaviour of the resulting biidolizines was studied. The new fluorophore systems were characterized spectroscopically by their absorption and emission maxima and their quantum yields.