Chemical Sciences

Towards “smart” multiphoton fluorophores: strongly solvatochromic probes for two-photon sensing of micropolarity

Published on - Chemical Communications

Authors: Céline Le Droumaguet, Olivier Mongin, Martinus H. V. Werts, Mireille Blanchard-Desce

New fluorophores, combining broad, very high two-photon absorption in the near-infrared region with a marked dependence of their emission spectra on solvent polarity, have been designed as model probes for two-photon sensing of the chemical environment.