However, in comparison with the mostly reported hydrocarbon AIEgens, the heterocycle-based ones that contain the hetero-atoms of silicon, nitrogen, sulphur, phosphorus, or boron etc. are rarely ...

That is, in a heterocycle, heteroatoms of one type aren’t easily swapped for heteroatoms of another type. Swapping an oxygen atom for a nitrogen atom, for example, is usually exceedingly ...

“As medicinal chemists, we care more about the heterocycle- containing molecules because probably at least 50% of pharmaceutical molecules have at least one heterocycle,” Bai says. Bai and ...