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Phenanthro[b]-Fused BODIPYs through Tandem Suzuki and Oxidative Aromatic Couplings: Synthesis and Photophysical Properties
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Azadipyrromethene Dye-Assisted Defect Passivation for Efficient and Stable Perovskite Solar Cells
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Solid‐State Emission from Mono‐ and Bichromophoric Boron Dipyrromethene (BODIPY) Derivatives and Comparison with Fluid Solution
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Fluorescent probes with high pKa values based on traditional, near-infrared rhodamine, and hemicyanine fluorophores for sensitive detection of lysosomal pH variations
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Visible Light Excitation of BODIPYs Enables Dehydrogenative Enamination at Their α-Positions with Aliphatic Amines
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AIE‐Active Difluoroboron Complexes with N,O‐Bidentate Ligands: Rapid Construction by Copper‐Catalyzed C−H Activation
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Can time-dependent double hybrid density functionals accurately predict electronic excitation energies of BODIPY compounds?
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Synthesis and Optical Properties of Unsymmetric Aromatically π-Extended BODIPY
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A DIE responsive NIR-fluorescent cell membrane probe
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Near-infrared aza-BODIPYs bearing tetraphenylethylene: Synthesis, photophysical studies, and cell imaging application
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Bright, Stable, and Biocompatible Organic Fluorophores Absorbing/Emitting in the Deep Near‐Infrared Spectral Region
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Synthesis of N,N‐Dialkylamino‐nor‐Dihydroxanthene‐Hemicyanine Fused Near‐Infrared Fluorophores and Their First Water‐Soluble and/or Bioconjugatable Analogues
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Strategic Construction of Sulfur-Bridged BODIPY Dimers and Oligomers as Heavy-Atom-Free Photosensitizers
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Synthesis of furan-substituted aza-BODIPYs having near-infrared emission
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Self-Assembled Aza-BODIPY and Iron(III) Nanoparticles for Photothermal-Enhanced Chemodynamic Therapy in the NIR-II Window
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Synthesis of Thermally Robust, Photostable Aza‐Dipyrromethene Ligands Substituted with Nitro Groups
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Ultalong nanowires self-assembled from a [b]-bisphenanthrene-fused azadipyrromethene
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Near Infrared (NIR) absorbing dyes as promising photosensitizer for photo dynamic therapy
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Naphthalimide-modified near-infrared cyanine dye with a large stokes shift and its application in bioimaging
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Synthesis, Photophysical and Redox Properties of Highly Stable Radicals of Nickel(II) Bis(2-aminophenyl)-azadipyrromethene
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One-pot synthesis of N-confused porphyrin-dipyrrin conjugates and their optical properties
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Monofunctional Platin‐BODIPY Bullet for Mitochondria‐Targeted Chemo‐PDT Activity
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A General Approach to Convert Hemicyanine Dyes into Highly Optimized Photoacoustic Scaffolds for Analyte Sensing**
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A Palette of Efficient and Stable Far-Red and NIR Dye Lasers
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Azadipyrromethene-based near-IR dyes with styryl substituents at the pyrrolic positions for organic photovoltaic applications
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Near‐IR Absorbing J‐Aggregate of an Amphiphilic BF2‐Azadipyrromethene Dye by Kinetic Cooperative Self‐Assembly
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Epicocconone–Hemicyanine Hybrids: Near Infrared Fluorophores for Protein Staining and Cell Imaging
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Comparative triad of routes to an alkyne-BF 2 azadipyrromethene near-infrared fluorochrome
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Asymmetric AZA-BODIPY with Optical Gain in the Near-Infrared Region
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Theoretical Insights into the Impact of Pyrrole and Imidazole Substituents on the BODIPY Chromophore
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Synthesis of BODIPY-Peptide Conjugates for Fluorescence Labeling of EGFR Overexpressing Cells
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Ethynylene-analogues of hemicurcuminoids: Synthesis and ground- and excited properties of their boron difluoride complexes
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pH Driven self-assembly of aza-BODIPY J-aggregates
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Synthesis, Crystal Structure, and the Deep Near-Infrared Absorption/Emission of Bright AzaBODIPY-Based Organic Fluorophores
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The Design and Bioimaging Applications of NIR Fluorescent Organic Dyes with High Brightness
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Heavy-Atom-Free Aza-BODIPY Polymeric Nanoparticles for Theranostic-Guided Photodynamic Cancer Therapy
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Tuning the Properties of Azadipyrromethene-Based Near-Infrared Dyes Using Intramolecular BO Chelation and Peripheral Substitutions
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Near-infrared vinyl-containing aza-BODIPY nanoparticles as photosensitizer for phototherapy
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Aza-BODIPY-based Fluorescent and Colorimetric Sensors and Probes
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BF 2 -azadipyrromethene NIR-emissive fluorophores with research and clinical potential
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Development of Bodipy-Ir complex as an near-infrared photosensitizer for photoacoustic imaging-guided photodynamic therapy
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Aggregation Behavior of CHR-bis(BODIPY) Bichromophores in THF-water Mixtures: Effect of Linking Positions and Aryl-spacer Substituents
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The influence of driving force on intramolecular electron transfer: A theoretical study of subphthalocyanine‐AzaBODIPY‐C60 supramolecular triad
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Tuning Molecular Rigidity with Seven-Membered Ring Fusion: A Strategy toward Bright Near-Infrared azaBODIPY Fluorophores
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A General Approach to Convert Hemicyanine Dyes into Highly Optimized Photoacoustic Scaffolds for Analyte Sensing**
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Synthesis and photophysical properties of long wavelength absorbing BODIPY/aza-BODIPY bearing a five-membered ring
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Living Supramolecular Polymerization of an Aza‐BODIPY Dye Controlled by a Hydrogen‐Bond‐Accepting Triazole Unit Introduced by Click Chemistry
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Enabling Regioselective Synthesis of α‐Methyl BODIPYs via H2O2/DMSO‐Promoted Direct Methylation
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BODIPYS and aza-BODIPY derivatives as promising fluorophores forin vivomolecular imaging and theranostic applications
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A Beneficial Effect of Bromination on the Photophysical and Photochemical Properties of Aza‐BODIPY Dyes with Electron‐Donating Groups
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Al(III) and Ga(III) Bisphenolate Azadipyrromethene-Based “N2O2” Complexes as Efficient NIR-Fluorophores
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Synthesis and characterization of a nitrophenol disubstituted BODIPY halochromic probe
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Tuning Shortwave‐Infrared J‐aggregates of Aromatic Ring‐Fused Aza‐BODIPYs by Peripheral Substituents for Combined Photothermal and Photodynamic Therapies at Ultralow Laser Power
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Tuning the photophysical properties ofBODIPYdyes used inDSSCsas predicted by double‐hybridTD‐DFT: The role of the methyl substituents
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Bioorthogonal click chemistry-mediated conjugation of an anti-DR4 antibody to gold nanorods enhances its pro-apoptotic activity under near infra-red-light stimulation
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Synthesis and properties of water-soluble 1,9-dialkyl-substituted BF2 azadipyrromethene fluorophores
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Large Non-planar Conjugated Molecule with Strong Intermolecular Interactions Achieved with Homoleptic Zn(II) Complex of Di(5-quinolylethynyl)-tetraphenylazadipyrromethene
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Side Chain Engineering of Near-IR Aza-BODIPY Dyes Enables Processable Films with High Hole Mobility in Diodes
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Development of an Easily Bioconjugatable Water-Soluble Single-Photon Emission-Computed Tomography/Optical Imaging Bimodal Imaging Probe Based on the aza-BODIPY Fluorophore
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Biocompatible Aza-BODIPY-Biotin Conjugates for Photodynamic Therapy of Cancer
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Red/NIR Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence from Aza‐BODIPYs
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Palladium-Catalyzed Tandem C–C Activation/Cyclization Induced by Carbopalladation of Functionalized Nitriles: Synthesis of Benzo Dipyrromethenes
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Multimodal Microscopy Distinguishes Extracellular Aggregation and Cellular Uptake of Single‐Walled Carbon Nanohorns
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Evolution of Aza-BODIPY dyes-A hot topic
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BODIPY-based naked-eye fluorescent on-off probe with high selectivity for H2S based on thiolysis of dinitrophenyl ether
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One-Pot Access to Ethylene-Bridged BODIPY Dimers and Trimers through Single-Electron Transfer Chemistry
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Synthesis and application of aromatic rings fused AzaBODIPY
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Far‐Red Excitation Induced Electron Transfer in Bis Donor‐AzaBODIPY Push‐Pull Systems; Role of Nitrogenous Donors in Promoting Charge Separation
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Highly Stable and Multifunctional Aza-BODIPY-Based Phototherapeutic Agent for Anticancer Treatment
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One-Pot Strategy for Symmetrical and Unsymmetrical BOIMPY Fluorophores
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Facile Approach to Perylenemonoimide with Short Side Chains for Nonfullerene Solar Cells
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Exploring Multiexciton Generation in an Asymmetric Aza-BODIPY Dimer
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Tetrafluorobenzo-Fused BODIPY: A Platform for Regioselective Synthesis of BODIPY Dye Derivatives
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Water-Soluble Aza-BODIPYs: Biocompatible Organic Dyes for High Contrast In Vivo NIR-II Imaging
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Fabrication of SubPc-Br/Ag3PO4 composites with high-efficiency and stable photocatalytic performance
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Aza-BODIPY: A New Vector for Enhanced Theranostic Boron Neutron Capture Therapy Applications
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