Houchen Wang

Jun 28, 2024 | pubs.rsc.org | Houchen Wang |JiaJun Liu |Hongfei Pan |Zhijian J. Chen

Pathway complexity in aqueous J-aggregation of an ionic BODIPY amphiphile A new amphiphilic boron-dipyrromethene (BODIPY) dye bearing a hydrophobic 2,3,4-tris (n-dodecyloxy) phenyl group at the meso-position and two hydrophilic cationic moieties at the boron was synthesized. This dye exhibited kinetic-controlled and thermodyanmic-controlled aggregation pathways in the aqueous solution, leading to the formation of two type of J-aggregates, i.e. the metastable Agg.