page_title: BODIPY
hierarchical_section_title: BODIPY
caption_attribution_description: English: Series of halogenated BODIPY molecules in ambient lighting and fluorescing under UV
context_page_description: BODIPY is the technical common name of a chemical compound with formula C
  ₉H
  ₇BN
  ₂F
  ₂, whose molecule consists of a boron difluoride group BF
  ₂ joined to a dipyrromethene group C
  ₉H
  ₇N
  ₂; specifically, the compound 4,4-difluoro-4-bora-3a,4a-diaza-s-indacene in the IUPAC nomenclature. The common name is an abbreviation for "boron-dipyrromethene". It is a red crystalline solid, stable at ambient temperature, soluble in methanol.
  The compound itself was isolated only in 2009, but many derivatives—formally obtained by replacing one or more hydrogen atoms by other functional groups—have been known since 1968, and comprise the important class of BODIPY dyes. These organoboron compounds have attracted much interest as fluorescent dyes and markers in biological research.
context_section_description: BODIPY is the technical common name of a chemical compound with formula C
  ₉H
  ₇BN
  ₂F
  ₂, whose molecule consists of a boron difluoride group BF
  ₂ joined to a dipyrromethene group C
  ₉H
  ₇N
  ₂; specifically, the compound 4,4-difluoro-4-bora-3a,4a-diaza-s-indacene in the IUPAC nomenclature. The common name is an abbreviation for "boron-dipyrromethene".  It is a red crystalline solid, stable at ambient temperature, soluble in methanol. 
  The compound itself was isolated only in 2009, but many derivatives—formally obtained by replacing one or more hydrogen atoms by other functional groups—have been known since 1968, and comprise the important class of BODIPY dyes. These organoboron compounds have attracted much interest as fluorescent dyes and markers in biological research.
caption: Samples of halogenated BODIPY dyes in ambient lighting and fluorescing under UV
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