A versatile synthetic approach to design tailor-made push-pull chromophores with intriguing and tunable photophysical signatures

Novel modified Biellmann BODIPYs were prepared using a C-H arylation reaction with in-situ formed aryldiazonium salts. The post-functionalization of the methylthio group of these derivatives was demonstrated in SNAr and the Liebeskind-Srogl cross-coupling reactions. The series of compounds herein de...

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Autores: Belmonte Vázquez, José Luis, Sola Llano, Rebeca, Bañuelos Prieto, Jorge, Betancourt-Mendiola, Lourdes, Vázquez Guevara, Miguel A., López Arbeloa, Iñigo María, Peña Cabrera, Eduardo
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:España
Institución:Universidad del País Vasco
Repositorio:Addi. Archivo Digital para la Docencia y la Investigación
OAI Identifier:oai:addi.ehu.eus:10810/65155
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10810/65155
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:BODIPY
push-pull dyes
organic synthesis
C-H activation
photophysical properties
charge transfer
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Sumario:Novel modified Biellmann BODIPYs were prepared using a C-H arylation reaction with in-situ formed aryldiazonium salts. The post-functionalization of the methylthio group of these derivatives was demonstrated in SNAr and the Liebeskind-Srogl cross-coupling reactions. The series of compounds herein designed with specific and selective functionalization featuring electron donor and acceptor groups provides valuable information about the impact of the molecular structure and stereoelectronic properties of the substituent on the photophysical signatures of BODIYs. In fact, push-pull dyes showing unexpected high fluorescence response towards the red edge of the visible spectrum can be designed, or, alternatively, chromophores ongoing the expected intramolecular charge transfer states (dark or fluorescent depending on the substituent, the attachment position and the surrounding media) can be also attained owing to the characteristic high charge separation of this king of dyes. We envisage that the reactivity of the selected scaffold as well as the guidelines derived from the computationally-aided spectroscopy study of these luminophores pave the way to the development of tailor made BODIPYs with specific and finely modulable spectroscopic and optical properties.