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perylene
Sign in to savePerylene or perilene is a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon with the chemical formula C20H12, occurring as a brown solid. It or its derivatives may be carcinogenic, and it is considered to be a hazardous pollutant. In cell membrane cytochemistry, perylene is used as a fluorescent lipid probe. It is the parent compound of a class of rylene dyes.
Chemical data
- Formula
- C20H12
- Molecular weight
- 252.3 g/mol
- IUPAC name
- perylene
- SMILES
- C1=CC2=C3C(=C1)C4=CC=CC5=C4C(=CC=C5)C3=CC=C2
- InChIKey
- CSHWQDPOILHKBI-UHFFFAOYSA-N
- XLogP
- 5.8
- Polar surface area
- 0 Ų
- H-bond donors
- 0
- H-bond acceptors
- 0
- Formal charge
- 0
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Research
6,776 papers- Perylene diimide-based treatment and diagnosis of diseases.Journal of materials chemistry. B · 2021
- Perylene diimide-based indicator displacement assays.Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) · 2025
- Iridium and Ruthenium Complexes Bearing Perylene Ligands.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022
- Perylene imides for organic photovoltaics: yesterday, today, and tomorrow.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2012
- Antifungal Activity of Amphiphilic Perylene Bisimides.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Reactions
- Emission
- Structure
- Biology
- References
Perylene or perilene is a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon with the chemical formula C20H12, occurring as a brown solid. It or its derivatives may be carcinogenic, and it is considered to be a hazardous pollutant. In cell membrane cytochemistry, perylene is used as a fluorescent lipid probe. It is the parent compound of a class of rylene dyes.
==Reactions== Like other polycyclic aromatic compounds, perylene is reduced by alkali metals to give a deeply colored radical anion and a dianion. The diglyme solvates of these salts have been characterized by X-ray crystallography.
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