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 …

Breaking the barrier: an osmium photosensitizer with unprecedented hypoxic phototoxicity for real world photodynamic therapy

JA Roque, PC Barrett, HD Cole, LM Lifshits, G Shi… - Chemical …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Hypoxia presents a two-fold challenge in the treatment of cancer, as low oxygen conditions
induce biological changes that make malignant tissues simultaneously more aggressive and …

Excited-state switching in rhenium (I) bipyridyl complexes with donor–donor and donor–acceptor substituents

JJ Sutton, D Preston, P Traber… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The optical properties of two Re (CO) 3 (bpy) Cl complexes in which the bpy is substituted
with two donor (triphenylamine, TPA, ReTPA2) as well as both donor (TPA) and acceptor …

Dramatic Alteration of 3ILCT Lifetimes Using Ancillary Ligands in [Re(L)(CO)3(phen-TPA)]n+ Complexes: An Integrated Spectroscopic and Theoretical Study

GE Shillito, TBJ Hall, D Preston, P Traber… - Journal of the …, 2018 - ACS Publications
The ground and excited state photophysical properties of a series of fac-[Re (L)(CO) 3 (α-
diimine)] n+ complexes, where L= Br–, Cl–, 4-dimethylaminopyridine (dmap) and pyridine …

Unveiling coupled electronic and vibrational motions of chromophores in condensed phases

C Fang, L Tang, C Chen - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
The quest for capturing molecular movies of functional systems has motivated scientists and
engineers for decades. A fundamental understanding of electronic and nuclear motions, two …

Triplets with a Twist: Ultrafast Intersystem Crossing in a Series of Electron Acceptor Materials Driven by Conformational Disorder

SS Murali, JK Gallaher, C Janiseck… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Control over the populations of singlet and triplet excitons is key to organic semiconductor
technologies. In different contexts, triplets can represent an energy loss pathway that must …

Photophysics of Ruthenium (II) Complexes with Thiazole π-Extended Dipyridophenazine Ligands

M Kaufmann, C Müller, AA Cullen… - Inorganic …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Transition-metal-based donor–acceptor systems can produce long-lived excited charge-
transfer states by visible-light irradiation. The novel ruthenium (II) polypyridyl type complexes …

Excited-state switching frustrates the tuning of properties in triphenylamine-donor-ligand rhenium (I) and platinum (II) complexes

GE Shillito, D Preston, P Traber, J Steinmetzer… - Inorganic …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The photophysical properties of a series of rhenium (I) tricarbonyl and platinum (II) bis
(acetylide) complexes containing a triphenylamine (TPA)-substituted 1, 10-phenanthroline …

Transitioning from Intraligand π, π* to Charge-Transfer Excited States Using Thiophene-Based Donor–Acceptor Systems

JRW McLay, JJ Sutton, GE Shillito, CB Larsen… - Inorganic …, 2020 - ACS Publications
A series of electron donor–acceptor compounds are reported in which both the donor and
acceptor strengths are systematically altered using mono-, bi-, and terthiophene as donors …

Two emissive long-lived excited states of an imidazole-functionalized ruthenium dipyridophenazine complex

D Isakov, R Giereth, D Nauroozi, S Tschierlei… - Inorganic …, 2019 - ACS Publications
A ruthenium (II) polypyridine-type complex based on the dipyridophenazine ligand with a
directly fused imidazole unit (L1, dipyrido [3, 2-a: 2′, 3′-c] phenazine-10, 11-imidazole) …