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Synthesis and Spectral Characteristics of BODIPY Dyes with Two or Three Dipyrrin Domains
Elizaveta Banakova1, Yuriy Marfin2, Evgeniy Molchanov1
1Department of Inorganic Chemistry, Ivanovo State University of Chemistry and Technology, Sheremetevsky avenue, 7, 153000, Ivanovo, Russia.
Abstract:
Several boron-dipyrrin (BODIPY) based fluorophores with two and three dipyrrin cores were synthesized and investigated in solvents under the concentration variation. Comparative analysis of spectral and photophysical changes under increasing the number of the cores in the dye molecule was made. Mutual influence of dipyrrin cores was detected leading to the increasing of the compounds rigidity and, thus, the absence of fluorescent molecular rotor effects under the viscosity variation. Aggregation induced quenching, which was observed for many mono-domain BODIPY dyes is reduced in case of investigated poly-domain compounds.
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