The stability of metal complexes in both thermodynamic and kinetic aspects always was a matter of interest in the field of coordination chemistry. Practical implementation of a fluorophores in a field of molecular biology also is essentially constrained by their solvolytic and protolytic stability. The aforementioned emphasizes interest in a search for factors of quantitative stability-based discrimination on a row of BODIPY derivatives. This chapter shows that thermodynamic stability of a dipyrrinates varies to a large extent from a mostly undestructable solvolytically BODIPYs to a very volatile in the same aspect rare-earth element complexes.
Part of the book: BODIPY Dyes