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Item Open Access Novel molecular building blocks based on the boradiazaindacene chromophore: applications in fluorescent metallosupramolecular coordination polymers(2009) Bozdemir, Ö. A.; Büyükcakir, O.; Akkaya, E. U.We designed and synthesized novel boradiazaindacene (Bodipy) derivatives that are appropriately functionalized for metal-ion-mediated supramolecular polymerization. Thus, ligands for 2-terpyridyl-, 2,6-terpyridyl-, and bipyridyl-functionalized Bodipy dyes were synthesized through Sonogashira couplings. These fluorescent building blocks are responsive to metal ions in a stoichiometry-dependent manner. Octahedral coordinating metal ions such as Zn II result in polymerization at a stoichiometry corresponding to two terpyridyl ligands to one Zn II ion. However, at increased metal ion concentrations, the dynamic equilibria are re-established in such a way that the monomeric metal complex dominates. The position of equilibria can easily be monitored by 1H NMR and fluorescence spectroscopies. As expected, although open-shell Fe II ions form similar complex structures, these cations quench the fluorescence emission of all four functionalized Bodipy ligands. © 2009 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.Item Open Access Synthesis of symmetrical multichromophoric bodipy dyes and their facile transformation into energy transfer cassettes(2010) Bozdemir, O. A.; Cakmak, Y.; Sozmen F.; Ozdemir, T.; Siemiarczuk, A.; Akkaya, E. U.Multichromophoric boron-dipyrromethene (Bodipy) dyes synthesized on phenylene-ethynylene platforms have been be converted to energy transfer cassettes in a one-step chemical transformation. Excitation energy transfer processes in these highly symmetrical derivatives were studied in detail, including time-re-solved fluorescence spectroscopy techniques. Excitation spectra and the emission lifetimes suggest efficient energy transfer between the donor and acceptor chromophore. These novel energy transfer cassettes, while highlighting a short-cut approach to similar energy transfer systems, could be useful as large pseudo-Stokes shift multichromophoric dyes with potential applications in diverse applications.