RT Journal Article T1 Engineering the BASHY Dye Platform toward Architectures with Responsive Fluorescence A1 Felicidade, João A1 F. Santos, Fabio M. A1 Fernández Arteaga, Jesús A1 Remón Ruiz, Patricia A1 Campos-González, René A1 Nguyen, Ha-Chi A1 Nájera, Francisco A1 Boscá, Francisco A1 Ng, David Y. W. A1 P. Gois, Pedro M. A1 Pischel, Uwe AB A set of nine boronic-acid-derived salicylidenehydrazone (BASHY) complexes has been synthesized in good to very good chemical yields in a versatile three-component reaction. In an extension to previous reports on this dye platform, the focus was put on the electronic modification of the “vertical” positions of the salicylidenehydrazone backbone. This enabled the observation of fluorescence quenching by photoinduced electron transfer (PeT), which can be reverted by the addition of acid in organic solvent (OFF-ON fluorescence switching). The resulting emission is observed in the green-to-orange spectral region (maxima at 520–590 nm). In contrast, under physiological pH conditions in water, the PeT process is inherently decativated, thereby enabling theobservation of fluorescence in the red-to-NIR region (maxima at 650–680 nm) with appreciable quantum yields and lifetimes. The latter characteristic supported the application of the dyes in fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIM) of live A549 cells. PB Wiley SN 0947-6539 SN 1521-3765 (electrónico) YR 2023 FD 2023 LK https://hdl.handle.net/10272/22934 UL https://hdl.handle.net/10272/22934 LA eng NO Felicidade, J., Santos, F. M. F., Arteaga, J. F., Remón, P., Campos‐González, R., Nguyen, H., Nájera, F., Boscá, F., Ng, D. Y. W., Gois, P. M. P., & Pischel, U. (2023). Engineering the BASHY Dye Platform toward Architectures with Responsive Fluorescence. In Chemistry – A European Journal (Vol. 29, Issue 31). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.202300579 NO This work was generously supported by the Portuguese FundaçãoparaaCiênciaeTecnologia [grantsPTDC/QUI-OUT/ 3989/2021 (P.G.); institutional grants UIDB/04138/2020 and UIDP/04138/2020 (iMed)], theSpanishMinisteriodeCienciae Innovación [grants CTQ2017-89832-P, PID2020-119992GB-I00 (bothtoU.P.),andPID2019-104293GB-I00(F.N.)], theConsejería deUniversidad, Investigacióne Innovación/JuntadeAndalucía [grantP18-FR-4080(U.P.)],andtheUniversidaddeHuelva/Junta deAndalucía [UHU202070 (U.P.)]. TheNMRspectrometersare partofthePortugueseNationalNMRNetwork(PTNMR)andare partially supportedby Infrastructure Project No. 022161 (cofinancedbyFEDER throughCOMPETE2020, POCI, PORL, and FCTthroughPIDDAC).WealsoacknowledgetheSupercomputingandBioinformaticsCentre(SCBI)oftheUniversityofMálaga forprovidingthecomputer resourcesusedfor thetheoretical calculations. DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva RD 31 may 2026