Recent strategies to develop innovative photosensitizers for enhanced photodynamic therapy

TC Pham, VN Nguyen, Y Choi, S Lee, J Yoon - Chemical reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
This review presents a robust strategy to design photosensitizers (PSs) for various species.
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a photochemical-based treatment approach that involves the …

Design of BODIPY dyes as triplet photosensitizers: electronic properties tailored for solar energy conversion, photoredox catalysis and photodynamic therapy

E Bassan, A Gualandi, PG Cozzi, P Ceroni - Chemical Science, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
BODIPYs are renowned fluorescent dyes with strong and tunable absorption in the visible
region, high thermal and photo-stability and exceptional fluorescence quantum yields …

Heavy-atom-free BODIPY photosensitizers with intersystem crossing mediated by intramolecular photoinduced electron transfer

MA Filatov - Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Organic photosensitizers possessing efficient intersystem crossing (ISC) and forming long-
living triplet excited states, play a crucial role in a number of applications. A common …

Evolution of BODIPY/aza-BODIPY dyes for organic photoredox/energy transfer catalysis

P Rana, N Singh, P Majumdar, SP Singh - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Over the past few decades, photocatalysis has been established as a rapidly escalating
research area to catalyse the chemical reactions induced by visible light through single …

Heavy atom‐free, mitochondria‐targeted, and activatable photosensitizers for photodynamic therapy with real‐time in‐situ therapeutic monitoring

J Miao, Y Huo, G Yao, Y Feng, J Weng… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Based on spin‐orbit charge transfer intersystem crossing mechanism, two heavy‐atom‐free
photosensitizers (PSs) BDP1/BDP2 with absorption maxima at 506 nm/660 nm were …

Charge separation, charge recombination, long-lived charge transfer state formation and intersystem crossing in organic electron donor/acceptor dyads

Y Hou, X Zhang, K Chen, D Liu, Z Wang… - Journal of Materials …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Photo-induced charge separation (CS) and charge recombination (CR) are crucial for
molecular systems used in artificial photosynthesis, photovoltaics, and photocatalysis, and …

Recent development of heavy-atom-free triplet photosensitizers: molecular structure design, photophysics and application

X Zhang, Z Wang, Y Hou, Y Yan, J Zhao… - Journal of Materials …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Triplet photosensitizers (PSs) have attracted much attention in recent years, due to the
significance of these kinds of compounds in fundamental photochemistry studies and …

Recent progress in heavy atom-free organic compounds showing unexpected intersystem crossing (ISC) ability

J Zhao, K Chen, Y Hou, Y Che, L Liu… - Organic & biomolecular …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
In this review, recent progress in heavy atom-free triplet photosensitizers was summarized.
The general approaches include attaining S1/Tn states sharing similar energy levels or …

Π‐Radical Photosensitizer for Highly Efficient and Stable Near‐Infrared Photon Upconversion

Y Wei, K An, X Xu, Z Ye, X Yin, X Cao… - Advanced Optical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Near‐infrared (NIR)‐to‐blue triplet–triplet annihilation upconversion (TTA‐UC)
exhibits substantial potential for diverse applications, encompassing photovoltaics …

Spin-allowed transitions control the formation of triplet excited states in orthogonal donor-acceptor dyads

JT Buck, AM Boudreau, A DeCarmine, RW Wilson… - Chem, 2019 - cell.com
Triplet excited states (triplets) serve as key intermediates in critical technologies and
processes ranging from organic synthesis to biomedicine to molecular electronics …