Photoreduction of cyanine borate infrared absorbing dyes gave the meso-substituted leuco cyanines; single electron transfer from borate to the cyanine molecule in an excited state, followed by combination of the dye radicals with alkyl or phenyl radicals produced from the n-butyltriphenylborate counter anion, gave the leuco dye.
M. Matsuoka, T. Hikida, K. Murobushi and Y. Hosoda, J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun., 1993, 299 DOI: 10.1039/C39930000299
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