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I briefly discussed aromaticity - here’s a reference for more explanation. LibreText - Aromatic Compounds
LibreText - Chapter 8, Conjugated compounds and aromaticity
And another fun visualization of aromatic compounds from flowers from CompoundInterest
LibreText - Conjugation, Color and the Chemistry of Vision
LibreText - Spectroscopy of Aromatic Compounds
Some pretty fluorophore examples What do you notice about how the molecules change as the fluorescence wavelength changes?
Paper - Tryptophan-based Fluorophores for Studying Protein Conformational Changes
Mark will discuss this more next Tuesday!