Novel Rigidochromic and Anti-Kasha Dual Emission Fluorophores Based on D-π-A Dyads as the Promising Materials for Potential Applications Ranging from Optoelectronics and Optical Sensing to Biophotonics and Medicine.

Today we see an increasing demand for new fluorescent materials exhibiting various sensory abilities due to their broad applicability ranging from the construction of flexible devices to bioimaging. In this paper, we report on the new fluorescent pigments AntTCNE, PyrTCNE, and PerTCNE which consist of 3-5 fused aromatic rings substituted with tricyanoethylene fragments forming D-π-A diad. Our studies reveal that all three compounds exhibit pronounced rigidochromic properties, i.

In vivo multimodal tumor imaging and photodynamic therapy with novel theranostic agents based on the porphyrazine framework-chelated gadolinium (III) cation.

Background: A promising strategy for cancer diagnosis and therapy is the development of an agent for multimodal imaging and treatment. In the present paper we report on two novel multifunctional agents prepared on the porphyrazine pigment platform using a gadolinium (III) cation chelated by red-fluorescent tetrapyrrole macrocycles (GdPz1 and GdPz2).

Methods: Spectral and magnetic properties of the compounds were analyzed.

Dual use of porphyrazines as sensitizers and viscosity markers in photodynamic therapy.

Porphyrazines have recently emerged as a useful class of tetrapyrroles suitable for photodynamic therapy of cancer (PDT) with excellent uptake and retention properties in vivo. Here we demonstrate that the photophysical properties of cyano-aryl porphyrazine pz1 are strongly viscosity dependent, i.e.

Novel PEG-organized biocompatible fluorescent nanoparticles doped with an ytterbium cyanoporphyrazine complex for biophotonic applications.

The preparation and properties are described of two types of novel PEG-organized nanoparticles including silica-modified uniform disk-shaped nanoparticles doped with a fluorescent ytterbium cyanoporphyrazine complex; a large enhancement of red emission for both types of nanoparticles is observed in physiological liquids owing to their binding to biomolecules.

Metal template assembly of highly functionalized octacyanoporphyrazine framework from TCNE structural units.

A new route to the octacyanoporphyrazine framework based on the interaction of metal sandwich pi-complexes with TCNE has been developed.