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Conformationally locked salicylideneaniline derivatives with strong ESIPT fluorescence

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2-(2-Hydroxyphenyl)-benzothiazole (HBT)-Rhodamine Dyad: Acid-Switchable Absorption and Fluorescence of Excited-State Intramolecular Proton Transfer (ESIPT)

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J. Phys. Chem. B, 2015, 119, 2384
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Multicolor Fluorescence Photoswitching: Color‐Correlated versus Color‐Specific Switching

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Advanced Optical Materials, 2018, 6
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Hydroxy‐Tetraphenylimidazole Derivatives as Efficient Blue Emissive Materials for Electroluminescent Devices

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Chemistry An Asian Journal, 2022, 17
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Effect of Substituents on Luminescence of New Hydroxytetraphenylimidazole Derivatives

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High Energy Chem, 2018, 52, 240
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The Strategies for High‐Performance Single‐Emissive‐Layer White Organic Light‐Emitting Diodes

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Tunable single and dual emission behavior of imidazole fluorophores based on D-π-A architecture

N. Nagarajan, G. Velmurugan, P. Venuvanalingam and R. Renganathan

Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry, 2014, 284, 36
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Substitution Effect on 2-(Oxazolinyl)-phenols and 1,2,5-Chalcogenadiazole-Annulated Derivatives: Emission-Color-Tunable, Minimalistic Excited-State Intramolecular Proton Transfer (ESIPT)-Based Luminophores

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J. Org. Chem., 2021, 86, 14333
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Atypical Energetic and Kinetic Course of Excited-State Intramolecular Proton Transfer (ESIPT) in Room-Temperature Protic Ionic Liquids

Arpan Manna, Mhejabeen Sayed, Anil Kumar and Haridas Pal

J. Phys. Chem. B, 2014, 118, 2487
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Is Color‐Specific Photoswitching in Dual‐Color Fluorescence Systems Possible? Manipulating Intermolecular Energy Transfer among Two Different Fluorophores and One Photoswitch

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Advanced Optical Materials, 2016, 4, 790
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Excited State Intramolecular Proton Transfer in π-Expanded Phenazine-Derived Phenols

Joanna Piechowska, Kirsi Virkki, Bartłomiej Sadowski, Helge Lemmetyinen, Nikolai V. Tkachenko and Daniel T. Gryko

J. Phys. Chem. A, 2014, 118, 144
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Fluoride anion detection based on the excited state intramolecular proton transfer (ESIPT) of 2-(o-hydroxyphenyl)imidazole induced by the Si–O cleavage of its silyl ether

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Excited-state intramolecular proton transfer (ESIPT) inspired azole-quinoline based fluorophores: Synthesis and photophysical properties study

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Dynamics of Intramolecular Excited State Proton Transfer in Emission Tunable, Highly Luminescent Imidazole Derivatives

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1-(Imidazol-1-yl)-indolizines—two-step synthesis and optical properties

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Tetrahedron, 2014, 70, 7006
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Excited-state intramolecular proton transfer in 2′-(2′-hydroxyphenyl)imidazo[1,2- a ]pyridines

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Dual-color fluorescent nanoparticles showing perfect color-specific photoswitching for bioimaging and super-resolution microscopy

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Understanding the photodynamics of 3-hydroxypyran-4-one using surface hopping simulations

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Synthesis and Optical Properties of Excited-State Intramolecular Proton Transfer Active π-Conjugated Benzimidazole Compounds: Influence of Structural Rigidification by Ring Fusion

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A CASSCF/CASPT2 insight into excited‐state intramolecular proton transfer of four imidazole derivatives

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J Comput Chem, 2015, 36, 2374
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Natural Born Laser Dyes: Excited-State Intramolecular Proton Transfer (ESIPT) Emitters and Their Use in Random Lasing Studies

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Nanomaterials, 2019, 9, 1093
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Excited state intramolecular proton transfer in 1,8-Dihydroxy-9,10-anthraquinone dye: Revealing microstructures in [CnmIm][NTf2] and [CnmIm][BF4] series of ionic liquid solvents

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Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry, 2018, 350, 111
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Correlation between Excited-State Intramolecular Proton-Transfer and Singlet-Oxygen Quenching Activities in 1-(Acylamino)anthraquinones

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