Patent ID: 7355044
Filing Date: 2008-04-08
Classification: C07D,C08G,C09B,C09D,D06P

Abstract:
1. A self-assembling dye according to wherein Linker represents any linking group containing at least one carbon, nitrogen, silicon, phosphorous, sulfur or oxygen atom; CU means any chromophore group with an absorption maximum between 200 nm and 2000 nm n and o are the same or different and are integers having a value of at least 1; m can be zero or any integer having a value of at least 1; R wherein said Linker is selected from the group consisting of a substituted or unsubstituted, saturated or unsaturated aliphatic group, a substituted or unsubstituted alicyclic hydrocarbon group, a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic group and a substituted or unsubstituted heteroaromatic group.