A symmetric complex [NiL2(H2O)2]Cl2, where L = 2-picolylamine was synthesized and characterized by spectroscopic and structural methods. Single crystal X-ray studies reveal that the Ni(II) center located in a pseudo-octahedral N4O2 environment with bidentate ligands L positioned in basal and two water molecules in the apical position. The complex is solvatochromic, ionochromic and thermochromic...

A series of mesoionic 1,3-thiazolium-4-aminides was synthesized starting from thioamides and chloroacetonitrile via cyanomethylbenzimidothioates which were cyclized by benzoylchloride. Depending on the reaction conditions 4-amino-1,3-thiazolium salts 4-N-benzamido-1,3-thiazolium obtained (X-ray structure analysis). Substitution amino groups with benzoyl chloride gave a title compounds analysis)...

Photoswitchable fluorescent diheteroarylethenes are promising candidates for applications in super-resolution molecular localization fluorescence microscopy thanks to their high quantum yields and fatigue-resistant photoswitching characteristics. We have studied the effect of varying substituents on the photophysical properties of six sulfone derivatives of diheteroarylethenes, which display fl...

Changes in the ground and excited state electronic structure of the [Ru(bpy)(3)](2+) (bpy = 2,2'-bipyridine) complex induced by functionalization of bpy ligands with carboxyl and methyl groups in their protonated and deprotonated forms are studied experimentally using absorption and emission spectroscopy and theoretically using density functional theory (DFT) and time dependent DFT (TDDFT). The...

A series of diazoaminobenzene derivatives (seven) in which the substituents have a wide range of electronic characters are set out to understand the involvement of the substituent identity in controlling the changes in their electronic absorption spectra. The interactions between the diazoamino group and the different groups account for some spectral shifts. The UV-vis spectrum of each compound...

This review compiles positively and negatively solvatochromic compounds which have been used to establish empirical scales of solvent polarity by means of UV/vis/near-IR spectroscopic measurements in solution-with particular emphasis on the E ~ ( 3 0 ) scale derived from negatively solvatochromic pyridinium N-phenolate betaine dyes. This requires a short discussion of the concept of solvent pol...

We theoretically demonstrate the formation of multiple bi-stability regions in the temperature pattern on the interface between a cuprous oxide quantum well and DCM2:CA:PS organic compound. The Frenkel molecular exciton of the DCM2 is brought into resonance with the 1S quadrupole Wannier-Mott exciton in the cuprous oxide by ”solvatochromism” with CA. The resulting hybrid is thermalized with sur...