Recent Progress in the Research of Borondipyrromethene-Based Fluorescent Ion Chemosensor

Borondipyrromethene (BODIPY) derivatives have been widely exploited and recognized as useful fluorescent sensing and labeling reagents in biomolecules due to their unique photophysical properties, such as strong absorption in the visible and near-IR ranges, high fluorescence quantum yield and excellent photo-stability. Recently, many BODIPY-derived probes have been developed for the detection of metal ions. BODIPY dye as a kind of fluorescent probe has been obtained much attention, which has outstanding physicochemical properties and excerlent selectivity, and sentiivity. In this review, the progress in the fields of ion chemosensor based on BODIPY is summarized.