Description: Prodan, a solvatochromic fluorophore, serves as a sensitive reporter for microenvironment changes in membranes. Utilizing Prodan's chemistry, researchers have designed and synthesized fluorescent nucleosides that exhibit a sensitive variation in their Stokes shift values, reflecting the orientational...

Solid. Soluble in methanol, DMF, acetonitrile or acetone. N,N-dimethyl-6-propionyl-2-naphthylamine (prodan) has both an electron-donor and an electron-acceptor substituent, resulting in a large excited-state dipole moment and extensive solvent polarity-dependent fluorescence shifts. When prodan is incorporated into...

Prodan is a solvatochromic fluorescent probe. It exhibits absorbance/emission maxima of 347/416 nm, respectively, in toluene, with both parameters increasing as solvent polarity increases. The emission maximum is also influenced by the phase state of membranes, such as in multilamellar vesicles containing...