Insights into a largely unexplored chemistry: that of boradipyrromethenes

Insights into a largely unexplored chemistry: that of boradipyrromethenes. This review focuses on new perspectives in the field of boradipyrromethene chemistry. In fact, a new chemistry of tetrahedral boron has been initiated and developed; it allows us to catch a glimpse of exciting optical properties, such as large Stokes shifts, high fluorescence quantum yields, and interesting redox properties. Some energy-transfer processes are extremely rapid and at the limit of the available experimental techniques. This chemistry allowed us to widen the absorption/emission spectrum in the near infrared, by chemically modifying the conjugate skeleton. Some new perspectives offered by these tandem systems for protein labelling are also envisaged.