. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Sep 12.

Published in final edited form as: J Am Chem Soc. 2007 Apr 6;129(17):5710–5718. doi: 10.1021/ja070025z

Table 1.

Absorption and emission wavelengths (in nm) of thiazole orange (TO) and fluorinated analogues.

Dye	Absorption in MeOH	Absorption in DNA	Emission in 90% Glycerol	Emission in DNA
TO	502	511	547	528
TO-1F	500	509	544	529
TO-p2F	489	496	534	525
TO-4F	485	492	530	523
TO-CF₃	516	527	571	549