For UV-Vis spectroscopy, 0.01 g of 1was dissolved in 3 mL DMSO and diluted to 1.23 × 10−5g/mL. UV-Vis measurements were performed on a Varian Cary 50 Bio UV-Visible Spectrometer and absorbance data was col-lected from 200 nm - 800nmwavelengths. For fluores-cence spectrometry, 0.01 g of 1was dissolved in 3 mL of DMSO and diluted to a concentration of 1.23 × 10−6g/mL. Fluorescence measurements were performed on a Shimadzu RF-5301PC Fluorescence Spectrometer. The maximum absorption wavelength from the UV-Vis data was found to be 359 nm and was used as the excitation wavelength for the fluorescence spectroscopy experiments. Emission fluorescence data was collected from 400 nm - 600 nm. The excitation and emission slit widths were both set to 3 mm. Solid state fluorescence of 1was collected using a custom made fiber optic probe (Priz-matix Ltd., ModiinIlite, Israel). The excitation wave-length used in both solid state and solution fluorescence was 359 nm with excitation and emission slit width of 5 mm and data collected from 400 - 600 nm. NMR data was collected using a Bruker Avance III 400 MHz NMR Spectrometer. The NMR solvent used for the intermediate and the final product was deuterated DMSO. DOSY experiments were performed using a two-dimensional stimulated echo pulse sequence with bipolar gradient pulses for diffusion. MALDI mass spectra were obtained from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln using positive mode and α-cyano-4hydroxycinnamic matrix. Elemental analysis data was obtained from Micro-Analysis INC.