TPE-MI (Tetraphenylethene maleimide) is an aggregation-induced luminescent agent that stains living cells, can be used to capture cysteines in exposed unfolded proteins, and detects protein damage after dihydroartemisinin studies of malaria parasites.

1-methyl-7-nitroisatoic anhydride (1M7) is a reagent. It detects local nucleotide flexibility, for probing 2'-hydroxyl reactivity.

Deacetylforskolin is a deacetylated derivative of forskolin that can be extracted from C. forskohlii. Deacetylforskolin activates rat adipocyte adenylyl cyclase (IC50 = 20 μM), inhibits glucose transport in rat adipocyte plasma membranes and exhibits antihypertensive activity.