Shining new light on biological systems: luminescent transition metal complexes for bioimaging and biosensing applications

LCC Lee, KKW Lo - Chemical Reviews, 2024 - ACS Publications
Luminescence imaging is a powerful and versatile technique for investigating cell
physiology and pathology in living systems, making significant contributions to life science …

Recent development of luminescent rhenium (I) tricarbonyl polypyridine complexes as cellular imaging reagents, anticancer drugs, and antibacterial agents

LCC Lee, KK Leung, KKW Lo - Dalton Transactions, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
There has been fast-growing interest in the exploitation of the photophysical and
photochemical properties of luminescent transition metal complexes in biological …

Molecular and cellular characterization of the biological effects of ruthenium (II) complexes incorporating 2-pyridyl-2-pyrimidine-4-carboxylic acid

V Pierroz, T Joshi, A Leonidova, C Mari… - Journal of the …, 2012 - ACS Publications
A great majority of the Ru complexes currently studied in anticancer research exert their
antiproliferative activity, at least partially, through ligand exchange. In recent years, however …

Ruthenium (II) complexes with dppz: from molecular photoswitch to biological applications

G Li, L Sun, L Ji, H Chao - Dalton Transactions, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
The DNA photoswitch [Ru (bpy) 2dppz] 2+(bpy= 2, 2′-bipyridine, dppz= dipyrido [3, 2-a:
2′, 3′-c] phenazine) has attracted much attention and become a powerful tool for studying …

Progress with, and prospects for, metal complexes in cell imaging

MP Coogan, V Fernández-Moreira - Chemical communications, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
This article summarises the state of the art of metal complexes in cell imaging, particularly
fluorescence microscopy, and presents prospects for the future development of this area …

Very bright europium complexes that stain cellular mitochondria

JW Walton, A Bourdolle, SJ Butler, M Soulie… - Chemical …, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
The synthesis, structure and photophysical properties of a series of highly emissive
europium complexes is reported. Certain complexes enter mammalian cells by …

New avenues in the design and potential application of metal complexes for photodynamic therapy

OJ Stacey, SJA Pope - Rsc Advances, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) requires a photosensitizing agent, which can undergo visible
light activation, yielding reactive oxygen species and/or radical species. The key physical …

Synthesis, single crystal, TD-DFT, molecular dynamics simulation and DNA binding studies of carbothioamide analog

M Rana, S Ahmedi, A Fatima, S Ahmad… - Journal of Molecular …, 2023 - Elsevier
In this work, analog 3b (5-(4-(dimethylamino) phenyl)-3-(4-methoxyphenyl)-4, 5-dihydro-1H-
pyrazole-1-carbothioamide) of pyrazoline derivative was produced based on the active site …

Carbon dots (C‐dots) from cow manure with impressive subcellular selectivity tuned by simple chemical modification

C D'Angelis do ES Barbosa, JR Corrêa… - … A European Journal, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Improved cellular selectivity for nucleoli staining was achieved by simple chemical
modification of carbon dots (C‐dots) synthesized from waste carbon sources such as cow …

Organometallic complexes of transition metals in luminescent cell imaging applications

FL Thorp-Greenwood, RG Balasingham… - Journal of Organometallic …, 2012 - Elsevier
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