Highly thermo- and photostable, near-infrared-absorbing heptamethine cyanine dyes were achieved with the use of fluorine-containing components. In particular, one prepared heptamethine cyanine dye, bearing a tetrakis(pentafluorophenyl)borate as a counter anion and an N-ethyl-2,2,2-trifluoroacetamido group at the meso position, showed not only a high decomposition temperature (Tdt ), but also very high photostability toward white LED irradiation.
We
have developed a novel aromatic fluorine-induced one-pot synthesis
of ring-perfluorinated trimethine cyanine dye without the use of a
pyridine by reacting hexafluorobenzoindolenine with 5 equiv of methyl
trifluoromethanesulfonate in mixed solvents of dimethylformamide and
toluene. The thus-obtained ring-perfluorinated trimethine cyanine
dye shows much better fluorescence properties, including intensity,
quantum yield, and lifetime, than the nonfluorinated dye, not only
in CH2Cl2 solution and the poly(methyl methacrylate)
film but also in the powder state. Furthermore, ring-perfluorinated
trimethine cyanine dye 2a shows better photostability
toward white light-emitting diode irradiation than nonfluorinated
dye trimethine cyanine dye 2b.
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