Bringing Color to Sugars: The Chemical Assembly of Carbohydrates to BODIPY Dyes

The combination of carbohydrates with BODIPY fluorophores gives rise to a family BODIPY-carbohydrate hybrids or glyco-BODIPYs, which mutually benefit from the encounter. Thus, standpoint, glyco-BODIPYs can be regarded as fluorescent glycoconjugate derivatives application in imaging techniques, whereas fluorophore view biocompatibility, water-solubility, and reduced toxicity, among others, brought about by sugar moiety. In this Account we have intended present collection available methods for synthesis hybrids, focus on chemical transformations core.