New quadrupolar fluorophores with high two-photon excited fluorescence

Abstract

New quadrupolar fluorophores that exhibit enhanced two-photon excited fluorescence were designed according to a molecular engineering approach based on push-push and pull-pull elongated molecules built from a rigid conjugated core (either dihydrophenanthrene or dithienothiophene).

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