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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Photochem Photobiol B. 2015 Feb 27;145:35–47. doi: 10.1016/j.jphotobiol.2015.02.006

Table 1.

Absorption and emission properties of BODIPYs in dichloromethane, THF, and DMSO relative to rhodamine 6G (Φf = 0.95, EtOH for BODIPY 1) and methylene blue (Φf = 0.03, MeOH for all other BODIPYs).

BODIPY Solvent Abs
λmax
(nm)
Logε
(M−1.cm−1)
Em
λmax
(nm)
Φf Stokes
Shift
(cm−1)
1 DMSO 538 3.55 551 0.03 439

CH2Cl2 618 4.64 661 0.19 1,053
2a THF 627 4.76 668 0.20 979
DMSO 636 4.47 676 0.17 930

CH2Cl2 597 4.77 611 0.30 384
2b THF 598 4.70 612 0.32 383
DMSO 601 4.17 624 0.52 613

CH2Cl2 599 4.08 610 0.40 301
2c THF 598 4.06 610 0.30 329
DMSO 604 4.61 621 0.15 453

CH2Cl2 606 4.41 630 0.37 629
2d THF 612 4.43 635 0.32 592
DMSO 622 4.46 651 0.19 716

CH2Cl2 606 4.85 628 0.21 578
2e THF 611 4.90 632 0.22 544
DMSO 612 4.82 639 0.23 690

CH2Cl2 702 4.54 735 0.15 640
3a THF 715 4.62 748 0.12 617
DMSO 727 4.39 771 0.10 785

CH2Cl2 664 4.75 687 0.24 504
3b THF 664 4.80 684 0.19 440
DMSO 666 4.79 695 0.17 627

CH2Cl2 670 4.59 682 0.02 263
3c THF 670 4.60 680 0.01 219
DMSO 675 4.59 692 0.01 364

CH2Cl2 690 4.45 721 0.02 623
3d THF 695 4.79 720 0.03 500
DMSO 712 4.87 748 0.02 676

CH2Cl2 678 4.86 710 0.10 665
3e THF 685 4.80 713 0.07 573
DMSO 693 4.96 731 0.07 750