Heterocycles—Structures and Optical Properties

Dear Colleagues,

From the fluorescent natural products ellagic and galbanic acids as probes in biology and rhodamine and coumarin derivatives as fluorescent dyes in fluorescence microscopy to thienyl and porphyrin derivatives as electroluminescent materials in organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs), heterocyclic structures are increasingly used in optical devices. The non-linear optical properties of some heterocycles make for interesting applications. This Special Issue welcomes original research on the synthesis, structural analysis and computational modeling of heterocyclic compounds with interesting optical properties. The scope is broad, and includes novel (1) fluorescent, (2) phosphorescent, and (3) electroluminescent substances, in addition to the utilization of such substances in (4) optical as well as in (5) optoelectronic devices such as optical field-effect transistors and OLEDs.

Prof. Dr. Thies Thiemann
Guest Editor

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• fluorescence
• phosphorescence
• electroluminescence
• nonlinear optical properties
• optoelectronic devices
• computational modeling