Frontispiece: Cyanine Dyes Containing Quinoline Moieties: History, Synthesis, Optical Properties, and Applications

Although comprising an important class of compounds with applications in many fields like medicine, pharmacology, and engineering, cyanine dyes carrying quinoline moieties have been less analyzed reviewed the past. Read more about history compounds, various synthetic routes to prepare quinolinium salts symmetrical asymmetrical mono-, di-, tri-, penta- heptamethine their as photosensitizers, probes biomolecules for labeling, well imaging agents Review by K. Ilina M. Henary on page 4230 ff.