boron. To synthesize this series, various chalcogenophenes (furan, thiophene,
selenophene, and tellurophene) were lithiated and then used as nucleophiles to attack the
boron center of a parent F-BODIPY. Compounds in the series were compared with respect to
their photophysical and structural properties, and trends were discussed. By virtue of the
“heavy atom effect”, as the mass of the heterocycle appended to the BODIPY core increases …