Visible-to-NIR-light activated release: from small molecules to nanomaterials

R Weinstain, T Slanina, D Kand, P Klan - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Photoactivatable (alternatively, photoremovable, photoreleasable, or photocleavable)
protecting groups (PPGs), also known as caged or photocaged compounds, are used to …

New strategies for the transition-metal catalyzed synthesis of aliphatic amines

A Trowbridge, SM Walton, MJ Gaunt - Chemical reviews, 2020 - ACS Publications
Transition-metal catalyzed reactions that are able to construct complex aliphatic amines from
simple, readily available feedstocks have become a cornerstone of modern synthetic …

Exploiting the Marcus inverted region for first-row transition metal–based photoredox catalysis

AY Chan, A Ghosh, JT Yarranton, J Twilton, J Jin… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Second-and third-row transition metal complexes are widely employed in photocatalysis,
whereas earth-abundant first-row transition metals have found only limited use because of …

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 …

Polypyridyl Ru (II) or cyclometalated Ir (III) functionalized architectures for photocatalysis

YL Li, AJ Li, SL Huang, JJ Vittal, GY Yang - Chemical Society Reviews, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The chemistry of polypyridyl Ru (II) and cyclometalated Ir (III) derivatives provides long-
lasting interest to researchers due to the inherent advantage of their triplet states in a variety …

Illuminating photoredox catalysis

RC McAtee, EJ McClain, CRJ Stephenson - Trends in Chemistry, 2019 - cell.com
Over the past decade, photoredox catalysis has risen to the forefront of synthetic organic
chemistry as an indispensable tool for selective small-molecule activation and chemical …

Critical overview of the use of Ru (II) polypyridyl complexes as photosensitizers in one-photon and two-photon photodynamic therapy

F Heinemann, J Karges, G Gasser - Accounts of chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Photodynamic Therapy (PDT) is an emerging technique to treat certain types of
cancer, bacterial, fungal, and viral infections, and skin diseases. In past years, different …

Photochemical approaches to complex chemotypes: applications in natural product synthesis

MD Karkas, JA Porco Jr, CRJ Stephenson - Chemical Reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
The use of photochemical transformations is a powerful strategy that allows for the formation
of a high degree of molecular complexity from relatively simple building blocks in a single …

Recent advances in the synthesis of cyclobutanes by olefin [2+ 2] photocycloaddition reactions

S Poplata, A Tröster, YQ Zou, T Bach - Chemical Reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
The [2+ 2] photocycloaddition is undisputedly the most important and most frequently used
photochemical reaction. In this review, it is attempted to cover all recent aspects of [2+ 2] …

Charge-transfer processes in metal complexes enable luminescence and memory functions

VWW Yam, AKW Chan, EYH Hong - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2020 - nature.com
Molecular transition-metal–ligand complexes are emerging as useful paradigms in materials
science. Transition metal complexes have diverse metal d electron configurations, oxidation …