BODIPY
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thumb|Samples of halogenated BODIPY dyes in ambient lighting and fluorescing under UV
BODIPY (boron–dipyrromethene) is the technical common name of a chemical compound with formula , whose molecule consists of a boron difluoride group joined to a dipyrromethene group ; specifically, the compound '4,4-difluoro-4-bora-3a,4a-diaza-s-indacene in the IUPAC nomenclature. It is a red crystalline solid, stable at ambient temperature, soluble in methanol.
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