A new series of perylene and hemicoronene diimides, obtained by visible light photocyclization, are presented,
between them some remarkable examples that are soluble in only water, and give nanoparticles by selfassociation. Those compounds work as new fluorescent materials in water by complexation with cucurbit[7]
uril, as well as selective G-quadruplex binding ligands with remarkable cytotoxic activity when the interaction
with G4 was sufficiently strong.
