Contents
Part I Important Structures for Functional Dyes
1 Polymethine Dyes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Masaki Matsui
2 Squaraine Dyes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Takeshi Maeda
3 Porphyrins: Syntheses and Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Jun-ichiro Setsune
4 Phthalocyanine and Related Analogues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Soji Shimizu
5 BODIPY Dyes and Their Analogues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Yasuhiro Kubota
Part II Properties of Functional Dyes
6 Molecular and Crystal Structures of Polymorphic Organic
Dyes and Coloured Organic Compounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
Shinya Matsumoto and Jiyong Hwang
7 Photochromism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
Seiya Kobatake
8 Red and Near-IR Fluorescent Two-Photon Absorption Dyes . . . . . . . 283
Tsutomu Ishi-i
9 Molecular Designs for Solid-State Luminescent Properties
and Recent Progresses on the Development of Functional
Luminescent Solid Materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309
Kazuo Tanaka, Masayuki Gon, and Yoshiki Chujo
10 Circularly Polarized Luminescence (CPL) Based on Planar
Chiral [2.2]Paracyclophane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343
Yasuhiro Morisaki
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