BODIPYs: State of the Art and Future Perspectives
A special issue of Molecules (ISSN 1420-3049). This special issue belongs to the section "Colorants".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2025 | Viewed by 763
Special Issue Editors
Interests: organic dyes; fluorescence; photonics; computational chemistry; materials chemistry
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Interests: fluorescent dyes; spectroscopy; biophotonics; chemosensors; laser spectroscopy; quantum mechanics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
BODIPYs (boron dipyrromethenes; 4-bora-3a,4a-diaza-s-indacenes) constitute one of the most valuable families of technological dyes, as supported by the increasing number of publications in the recent few years. Nowadays, there is a plethora of available synthetic procedures for their direct functionalization, focused on appropriate modulation of key physical (mainly photophysical) properties. This chemical versatility is, indeed, the main reason of its success. Its ample reactivity allows the derivatization of BODIPYs at their dipyrrin moieties with a great variety of pendant functional groups, and, accordingly, the photophysical signatures can be deeply and finely modulated. In this way, tailor-made BODIPYs can be developed with specific and improved properties. Therefore, BODIPYs have been tested in a myriad of applications, such as fluorescence sensors, switches and probes, as tunable laser dyes, in light harvesting arrays for antenna systems, in photovoltaic devices, in optoelectronics, in biomedicine, as fluorescence markers for bioimaging, as singlet-oxygen generators in photodynamic therapy, and in chirality where the fluorophore responds to circular polarized light, to name a few of the most relevant application fields. This Special Issue intends to overview the state of the art of BODIPYs, remarking the recent advances in the chemistry of BODIPYs and the main outcomes in diverse fields where they are applied, as well as to provide some guidelines about how they are perceived.
Dr. Jorge Bañuelos Prieto
Guest Editor
Dr. Edurne Avellanal-Zaballa
Guest Editor Assistant
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Keywords
- BODIPYs
- spectroscopy
- synthesis
- quantum mechanics
- tunable laser
- bioimaging
- photodynamic therapy
- optoelectronics
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