Abstract:
Our universe is a complex collection of several different elements, ionic species, organicinorganic
molecules etc. that are in continuous equilibrium of chemical reactions. Living
organisms and their surrounding environment communicate with each other via numerous
principle chemical pathways namely, transfer of electron, acid-base chemistries, metal-ligand
interactions and catalytic transformations. Understanding the abovementioned phenomena by
which the living organisms communicate and survive is not only an interesting challenge but also
an opportunity for the chemists worldwide to develop novel tools to study the dynamism of the
biological relationships at cellular level. In this regard, organic chemists in association with
chemical biologists have been trying to develop simple and effective analytical methods which
would allow real-time examination of the intact biological systems with spatial as well as
temporal control.1 Molecular imaging has been defined as an in vivo characterization technique
to measure biological phenomena at cellular and molecular level exploiting the advantages of the
synthetic molecular probe design besides the per se imaging instrumentation
