What is it about?

Fluorescent molecules are used everywhere and this paper describes the properties of a long forgotten dye which could be used in all sorts of applications.

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Why is it important?

The work opens up the opportunity to expand a class of dye that has essentially sat idle in the literature for over 100 years.

Perspectives

This is the first paper to really study the dye called rosindone and work out its properties.

Professor Andrew Christopher Benniston
Newcastle University

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This page is a summary of: Rosindone revisited: a computational and photophysical study of 7-phenylbenzo[a]phenazine-5(7H)-one (PBP), Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences, January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1039/c8pp00279g.
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