“…The synthesis, properties and applications of cyanine dyes reflect the important and vital position of these dyes in the chemistry of dyes and pigments (Shindy et al, 2015;Soriano et al, 2016;Shindy 2017a;Shindy et al, 2017;Shindy 2016a;Shindy et al, 2016;Shindy et al, 2016a;Shindy et al, 2016b;Shindy et al, 2016c;Shindy et al, 2017a;Komljenovic et al, 2016;Zhang et al, 2016;Chen et al, 2016;Arjona et al, 2016;Shindy 2018;Shindy 2018a;Shindy et al, 2018;Shindy et al, 2018a;Shindy et al, 2019;Shindy et al, 2020).…”