CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS, vol.57, no.49, pp.6039-6042, 2021 (SCI-Expanded)
We devised a new generation of halogen-based triplet sensitisers comprising geminal dibromides at the vinyl backbone of a BODIPY fluorophore. Incorporating geminal dibromides into the pi-conjugation of BODIPY enhanced intersystem crossing due to the heavy atom effect, which in turn improved the extent of excited triplet states.