A new class of cyanine-like dyes with large bond-length alternation.
Cyanines, which represent a class of charged chromophores with an odd number of pi-conjugated carbons, display unique electronic and optical properties attributed to the strong electronic delocalization and the absence of any significant carbon-carbon bond-length alternation (BLA) along their backbo...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2009
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