Recent advances on visible light bodipys and related difluoroborane structures-based photoinitiating systems

Excited state dynamics of homoleptic Zn(ii)dipyrrin complexes and their application in photocatalysis

“…Although zinc complexes have been attracted an increasing number of recent works to understand their photophysical behaviour, their potential role as photocatalysts (PCs) has been quite under evaluated 32,33 in comparison to BODIPY, for which several publications vouched for a vast employment in this regard. 7,[34][35][36][37] In the present work, the behaviour of zinc-dipyrrin complexes was investigated as a function of intra-and intermolecular environmental influences. Fine adjustment of the dipyrrin ligands affects the corresponding photophysical properties of the zinc complexes.…”

“…Although zinc complexes have been attracted an increasing number of recent works to understand their photophysical behaviour, their potential role as photocatalysts (PCs) has been quite under evaluated 32,33 in comparison to BODIPY, for which several publications vouched for a vast employment in this regard. 7,34–37…”

Diethoxycarbonyl-BODIPYs as heavy-atom-free photosensitizers for holographic recording in cellulose acetate photopolymer

“…However, developing BODIPY-based photoinitiating systems that efficiently initiate the free radical polymerization for a wide range of monomers under mild irradiation conditions (low light intensity and under air) is still a challenge. 13 One of the complications is a strong dependence of triplet state yields on solvent polarity, which is a known characteristic of SOCT-ISC. Recently Uddin et al demonstrated this by using several BODIPY donor–acceptor dyads as photoinitiators for the polymerization of monomers of varying polarity.…”