From photosensitizers to light harvesters adapting the molecular structure in all-BODIPY assemblies

Herein we detail a protocol to design dyads and triads based solely on BODIPY dyes as halogen-free singlet oxygen photosensitizers or energy transfer molecular cassettes. The conducted photonic characterization reveals the key role of the BODIPY-BODIPY linkage to finely modulate the balance between the triplet state population and fluorescence decay.

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This paper presents a protocol for designing dyads and triads based on BODIPY dyes as singlet oxygen photosensitizers or energy transfer molecular cassettes without halogens. Photonic characterization shows the crucial role of the BODIPY-BODIPY linkage in finely modulating the balance between the triplet state population and fluorescence decay.