Cyanine Dyes
“Cyanine is a non-systematic name of a synthetic dye family belonging to polymethine group. Cyanines have many uses as fluorescent dyes, particularly in biomedical imaging. Depending on the structure, they cover the spectrum from IR to UV.” (Wikipedia 8/17/2009)
Recent US Patents
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Recent Journal Articles
To get to the abstract or article, copy the citation and paste it into favorite search engine (ex. Google). The date is the date the entry was found. 3/26/2010 Hydration of cyanin dyes (# 114304) Journal of Chemical Physics 132 #11 (2010) 8/21/2009 Synthesis and properties of phthalocyanine zinc(II) complexes replaced with oxygen and sulfur linked adamantane moieties (375-380) Dyes and Pigments 83 #3 (2009) Spectroscopic and photoelectric investigations of resonance effects in selected sulfonated phthalocyanines (281-290) Dyes and Pigments 83 #3 (2009) Three-cationic carbocyanine dyes as sensitizers in very efficient photoinitiating systems for multifunctional monomer polymerization (p 4636-4654) Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry 47 #18 (2009)
Review Articles
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Editor's Notes
As the literature is reviewed, and items of interest concerning this topic are found. These may be added in an abbreviated form with the reference. Readers and contributors are invited to add their own notes. Contributors may add them directly and other readers can simply send their notes to the editor, Roger Corneliussen at rcorneliussen@4spe.org. He may edit and add them to this page at his discretion.