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ReviewRSC advances2025

Push-pull heterocycles and beyond: recent developments in absorption, emission, and ICT properties.

Manel Essid, Ehsan Ullah Mughal

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Review in RSC advances, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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8 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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2 authors.

Manel EssidChemistry Department, College of Science, King Khalid University (KKU) P.O. Box 9004 Abha 61413 Saudi Arabia.
Ehsan Ullah MughalDepartment of Chemistry, University of Gujrat Gujrat-50700 Pakistan ehsan.ullah@uog.edu.pk.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9463-9398

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Heterocyclic scaffolds represent a cornerstone in the development of advanced organic materials owing to their tunable electronic structures and diverse photophysical properties. Recent studies have demonstrated significant progress in the design and synthesis of heterocyclic chromophores, particularly focusing on their absorption and emission behaviors, donor-acceptor interactions, intramolecular charge transfer (ICT), and solvent-dependent spectral shifts. In this review, we present for the first time a comprehensive summary of the literature reported during 2024-2025, covering a wide range of systems including indole-coumarins, 3-cyano-2-pyridones, tetracyanobuta-1,3-diene (TCBD) derivatives, highly annulated boron-dipyrromethenes (BODIPYs) and pyrimidine-based boron complexes. Key discussions emphasize how structural modifications, solvent polarity, and push-pull effects influence band gaps, bathochromic and hypsochromic shifts, fluorescence quantum yields, and near-infrared (NIR) emission properties. By correlating structure-property relationships, this review provides important insights into molecular design strategies and highlights the potential of heterocyclic chromophores as promising candidates for next-generation optoelectronic, sensing, and photonic applications.

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PMID41069522
PMCPMC12507032

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