Achieving α‐methylation of BODIPYs remains challenging due to the electron‐deficient property of α‐position of BODIPYs. Herein, a H2O2/DMSO‐promoted radical process was employed, providing an approach for the construction of a series of α‐methyl and α,α‐dimethyl BODIPYs in 57‐68% yields. In addition, representative transformations and half‐gram experiments as well as their photophysical properties
Synthesis, electrochemical/photophysical properties and computational investigation of 3,5-dialkyl BODIPY fluorophores
作者:Yavuz Derin、Raşit Fikret Yılmaz、İbrahim Halil Baydilek、Vildan Enisoğlu Atalay、Abdil Özdemir、Ahmet Tutar
DOI:10.1016/j.ica.2018.06.006
日期:2018.10
A series of 3,5 dimethyl and diethyl BODIPY with different substitutions at meso position are synthesized and characterized. Photophysical and electrochemical features of the 3,5 dialkyl BODIPY fluorophores are investigated using experimental and computational approaches. All fluorophores display absorption maxima around at 510 nm and emission maxima around at 520 nm which correspound to very narrow Stokes shift. Among the fluorophores, 3,5,8 alkylated BODIPYs are found to have high fluorescence quantum yield (1.00-0.93). 4-Bromophenyl group at meso position decreases fluorescence quantum yield of the dye while it increases with 4-methoxyphenyl group at meso position. The HOMO-LUMO energies of synthesized fluorophore compounds were calculated by B3LYP/6-31G(d, p) and B3LYP/6-311+ G(d, p) levels in chloroform phase. Electron donating and accepting groups show increasing and decreasing effect on the band gaps of the fluorophores respectively.
Photophysical Properties of Borondipyrromethene Analogues in Solution
作者:Wenwu Qin、Mukulesh Baruah、Mark Van der Auweraer、Frans C. De Schryver、Noël Boens
DOI:10.1021/jp052626n
日期:2005.8.1
The photophysical properties of seven new 8-(p-substituted)phenyl analogues of 4,4-difluoro-3,5-dimethyl-8-(aryl)-4-bora-3a,4a-diaza-s-indacene (derivatives of the well-known fluorophore BODIPY) in several solvents have been studied by means of absorption and steady-state and time-resolved fluorimetry. For each compound, the fluorescence quantum yield and lifetime are lower in solvents with higher polarity owing to an increase in the rate of nonradiative deactivation. Increasing the electron withdrawing strength of the p-substituent on the phenyl group in position 8 also leads to lower fluorescence quantum yields and lifetimes. When the p-substituent on the phenyl group in position 8 is a tertiary amine [8-(4-piperidinophenyl), 8-(4-N,N-dimethylaminophenyl), and 8-(4-morpholinophenyl)], the low quantum yields of these compounds in more polar solvents can be rationalized by the inversion of the energy levels of an apolar, highly fluorescent and a polar, nonfluorescent excited state, where charge transfer from the tertiary amine to the BODIPY unit occurs. These amine analogues can be protonated at low pH in aqueous solution. Fluorescence titrations yielded pK(a) values of their conjugate ammonium salts which are in agreement with the electron donating tendency of the amine group: piperidino (4.15) > dimethylamino (2.37) > morpholino (1.47), with the pK(a) values in parentheses. The rate constant of radiative deactivation (k(f)) is the same for all compounds in all solvents studied (k(f) = 1.4 x 10(8) s(-1)).