TY - JOUR A1 - Orofino-Pena, Clara A1 - Cortizo-Lacalle, Diego A1 - Cameron, Joseph A1 - Sajjad, Muhammad T. A1 - Manousiadis, Pavlos P. A1 - Findlay, Neil J. A1 - Kanibolotsky, Alexander L. A1 - Amarasinghe, Dimali A1 - Skabara, Peter J. A1 - Tuttle, Tell A1 - Turnbull, Graham A. A1 - Samuel, Ifor D. W. T1 - Synthesis and properties of novel star-shaped oligofluorene conjugated systems with BODIPY cores JF - Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry PY - 2014/// VL - 10 SP - 2704 EP - 2714 SN - 1860-5397 DO - 10.3762/bjoc.10.285 PB - Beilstein-Institut JA - Beilstein J. Org. Chem. UR - https://doi.org/10.3762/bjoc.10.285 KW - absorption spectroscopy KW - BODIPY KW - cyclic voltammetry KW - photoluminescence KW - star-shaped oligofluorene N2 - Star-shaped conjugated systems with varying oligofluorene arm length and substitution patterns of the central BODIPY core have been synthesised, leading to two families of compounds, T-B1–T-B4 and Y-B1–Y-B4, with T- and Y-shaped motifs, respectively. Thermal stability, cyclic voltammetry, absorption and photoluminescence spectroscopy of each member of these two families were studied in order to determine their suitability as emissive materials in photonic applications. ER -