Chemistry Letters, Vol.33, No.9, 1124-1125, 2004
TICT induced fluorescence color change actualized in an organogel system
A dimethylaminobenzoate group (TICT probe) was conjugated with a cholesterol group to assess the microenvironmental, effect of the gel fibrils by a fluorescence method. It was found that the solvent-dependent dual fluorescence mode characteristic of TICT molecules in the sol phase almost disappears in the gel phase and only the shorter-wavelength fluorescence arising from the coplanar conformation is observed.