Electrochromic and electrofluorochromic properties of a new boron dipyrromethene–ferrocene conjugate

A new boron dipyrromethene–ferrocene (BODIPY–Fc) conjugate with pentafluorophenyl as the meso substituent and two Fc termini was synthesized and its spectroscopic and electrochemical features were analyzed. An intramolecular charge transfer from the donor Fc to the acceptor BODIPY has been predicted by theory and confirmed experimentally, leading to efficient fluorescence quenching when the dyad is in the neutral state. Fluorescence can be triggered by oxidizing both ferrocenyl units either chemically or electrochemically. Eventually, a fully reversible fluorescence switch is evidenced by coupling TIRF microscopy with electrolysis in an electrochemical cell

Pluronic-silica (PluS) nanoparticles doped with multiple dyes featuring complete energy transfer

We report here the design of two sets Of multifltiorophoric silica nanoparticles, observing unprecedented efficiencies in the energy-transfer processes among the doping dyes. These nanomaterials show a very high overall sensitization, allowing under a single wavelength excitation to obtain many different colors (one per nanoparticle) in emission with negligible crosstalk. Moreover, each particle can present very large and tunable pseudo-Stokes shifts (up to 435 nm), a very high brightness even exciting the bluest donor, and a negligible residual emission intensity from all donor dyes. All these features, combined with colloidal stability and synthetic method reliability, make these multicomponent nanoparticles very promising for multiplex analysis and for all the diagnostic techniques requiring high sensitivity associated with a large Stokes shift

Sequence-specific synthesis of platinum-conjugated trichromophoric energy cascades of anthracene, tetracene, and pentacene and fluorescent "black chromophores"

10.1021/om400578tOrganometallics32247283-7291ORGN