Electrochemical Diselenation of BODIPY Fluorophores for Bioimaging Applications and Sensitization of 1 O2

Ícaro A O Bozzi; Luana A Machado; Emilay B T Diogo; Fábio G Delolo; Luiza O F Barros; Gabriela A P Graça; Maria H Araujo; Felipe T Martins; Leandro F Pedrosa; Lilian C da Luz; Emmanuel S Moraes; Fabiano S Rodembusch; João S F Guimarães; André G Oliveira; Sebastian H Röttger; Daniel B Werz; Cauê P Souza; Felipe Fantuzzi; Jianhua Han; Todd B Marder; Holger Braunschweig; Eufrânio N da Silva Júnior

doi:10.1002/chem.202400244

Electrochemical Diselenation of BODIPY Fluorophores for Bioimaging Applications and Sensitization of ¹ O₂

Chemistry. 2024 Feb 21;30(11):e202400244. doi: 10.1002/chem.202400244. Epub 2024 Feb 1.

Authors

Ícaro A O Bozzi¹, Luana A Machado^{1

2}, Emilay B T Diogo¹, Fábio G Delolo¹, Luiza O F Barros¹, Gabriela A P Graça¹, Maria H Araujo¹, Felipe T Martins³, Leandro F Pedrosa⁴, Lilian C da Luz⁵, Emmanuel S Moraes⁶, Fabiano S Rodembusch⁵, João S F Guimarães⁷, André G Oliveira⁷, Sebastian H Röttger⁸, Daniel B Werz⁸, Cauê P Souza⁹, Felipe Fantuzzi⁹, Jianhua Han², Todd B Marder², Holger Braunschweig², Eufrânio N da Silva Júnior¹

Affiliations

¹ Instituto de Ciências Exatas, Departamento de Química, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, 31270-901, Brazil.
² Institute for Inorganic Chemistry and Institute for Sustainable Chemistry & Catalysis with Boron, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Am Hubland, 97074, Würzburg, Germany.
³ Instituto de Química, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, 74690-900, Brazil.
⁴ Instituto de Ciências Exatas, Departamento de Química, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Volta Redonda, RJ, 27213-145, Brazil.
⁵ Instituto de Química, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, 91501-970, RS, Brazil.
⁶ Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp), Cidade Universitária, 13083970 -, Campinas, SP, Brazil.
⁷ Departamento de Fisiologia e Biofísica, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
⁸ DFG Cluster of Excellence livMatS @FIT and Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Institute of Organic Chemistry, Albertstraße 21, 79104, Freiburg (Breisgau), Germany.
⁹ School of Chemistry and Forensic Science, University of Kent, Park Wood Rd, Canterbury, CT2 7NH, United Kingdom.

PMID: 38299452
DOI: 10.1002/chem.202400244

Abstract

Invited for the cover of this issue are the groups of Holger Braunschweig at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany and Eufrânio N. da Silva Júnior at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, UFMG, Brazil. The image depicts the electrochemical synthesis of selenium-containing BODIPY molecules with lightning symbolizing the electrifying synthetic process, while the surrounding elemental chaos hints at the red-shifted absorption and emission and the transformative photophysical properties of these new compounds. Read the full text of the article at 10.1002/chem.202303883.