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SUBMITTER: Zampetti A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5431651 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Scientific reports 20170509 1
We take advantage of a recent breakthrough in the synthesis of α,β-unfunctionalised 4,4-difluoro-4-bora-3a,4a-diaza-s-indacene (BODIPY) moieties, which we symmetrically conjugate with oligothienyls in an unexpectedly stable form, and produce a "metal-free" A-D-A (acceptor-donor-acceptor) oligomer emitting in the near-infrared (NIR) thanks to delocalisation of the BODIPY low-lying lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO) over the oligothienyl moieties, as confirmed by density functional theory ...[more]