Erhong Hao

TL;DR: Electrophilic bromination of pyrrolic-unsubstituted BODIPYs using bromine regioselectively generated mono- to heptabromoBODIPys in a stepwise fashion in good to excellent yields shows the potential application of these bromoBs as sensitizers for PDT.

TL;DR: A series of beta-formyl-BODIPYs 2 were synthesized in high yields from tetramethyl-BOSYs 1 via the Vilsmeier-Haack reaction and were further functionalized using a Knoevenagel condensation to generate novel BODIPys 3 and 4.

TL;DR: A series of BF2 complexes of hydrazine-Schiff base linked bispyrrole have been prepared from a simple two-step reaction from commercially available substances and are highly fluorescent in solution, film, and solid states with larger Stokes shift and excellent photostabilities comparable or even super to those of their BODIPY analogues.

TL;DR: A triazole-containing 8-hydroxyquinoline (8-HQ) ether 2 was efficiently synthesized in two steps from the "click" strategy and exhibits a very sensitive, selective, and ratiometric fluorescence quenching in the presence of Fe(3+), with an 81 nm red shift of the emission maximum in a wide range of pH through a metal ligand charge transfer (MLCT) effect.

TL;DR: This work reports the synthesis, X-ray analysis and singlet oxygen generation properties of a set of meso-β directly linked BODIPYs with the Meso-aryl group and meso -aryl component free to rotate or constrained.