Bioapplications of small molecule Aza-BODIPY: from rational structural design to in vivo investigations

Z Shi, X Han, W Hu, H Bai, B Peng, L Ji, Q Fan… - Chemical Society …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Boron-dipyrromethene (BODIPY) belongs to a family of organoboron compounds,
commercialized as fluorescent dyes by Invitrogen™. As BODIPY derivatives, Aza-boron …

Synthesis of BODIPY dyes through postfunctionalization of the boron dipyrromethene core

N Boens, B Verbelen, MJ Ortiz, L Jiao… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2019 - Elsevier
Fluorophores based on the 4-bora-3a, 4a-diaza-s-indacene (aka boron dipyrromethene,
boron dipyrrin, or BODIPY) platform have found diverse applications in different fields of …

Evolution of Aza-BODIPY dyes-A hot topic

M Kaur, A Janaagal, N Balsukuri, I Gupta - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Aza-boron-dipyrromethenes (Aza-BODIPYs) are a class of dyes that display
absorption and emission covering visible to NIR region. They can show NIR emission in the …

Azadipyrromethenes: from traditional dye chemistry to leading edge applications

Y Ge, DF O'Shea - Chemical Society Reviews, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Azadipyrromethenes were first described over 70 years ago as blue pigments, but now are
rapidly emerging as a compound class with highly desirable near infrared photophysical …

Aromatic [b]-fused BODIPY dyes as promising near-infrared dyes

J Wang, N Boens, L Jiao, E Hao - Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Far-red and near-infrared (NIR) absorbing/emitting dyes have found diverse applications in
biomedicine and material science. However, the absorption and emission of classical …

[HTML][HTML] Bacteriochlorins and their metal complexes as NIR-absorbing photosensitizers: Properties, mechanisms, and applications

B Pucelik, A Sułek, JM Dąbrowski - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
Bacterichlorins possess a characteristic intense electronic absorption in the near-infrared
part of the electromagnetic radiation (NIR) from 700 nm up to 900 nm, where endogenous …

Novel aza-BODIPY based small molecular NIR-II fluorophores for in vivo imaging

L Bai, P Sun, Y Liu, H Zhang, W Hu, W Zhang… - Chemical …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
The development of new NIR-II fluorophores, particularly those with facile syntheses, high
fluorescence quantum yields, and stable and tunable photophysical properties, is …

Why do TD-DFT excitation energies of BODIPY/aza-BODIPY families largely deviate from experiment? Answers from electron correlated and multireference methods

MR Momeni, A Brown - Journal of chemical theory and …, 2015 - ACS Publications
The vertical excitation energies of 17 boron–dipyrromethene (BODIPY) core structures with
a variety of substituents and ring sizes are benchmarked using time-dependent density …

Light-Facilitated Reassembly to Generate J-Aggregates of Glucosyl aza-BODIPY with Second Near-Infrared Emission for Bioimaging

L Dong, X Shi, H Li, ZF Liu, KX Teng, LY Niu… - ACS Materials …, 2024 - ACS Publications
We report light-facilitated reassembly to generate NIR-II luminescent materials without a light-
reactive moiety for the first time. Three amphiphilic compounds 1–3 comprised of the NIR-I …

Water-Soluble Aza-BODIPYs: Biocompatible Organic Dyes for High Contrast In Vivo NIR-II Imaging

A Godard, G Kalot, J Pliquett, B Busser… - Bioconjugate …, 2020 - ACS Publications
A simple NIR-II emitting water-soluble system has been developed and applied in vitro and
in vivo. In vitro, the fluorophore quickly accumulated in 2D and 3D cell cultures and rapidly …