As deaths from preventable diseases abate, cancer is becoming one of the leading causes
of death in the world. Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a noninvasive treatment for cancer …

Conjugated porphyrin arrays that possess delocalised electronic networks have, for the most
part, been assembled by using alkene or alkyne type bridging units or by directly connecting …

Two-dimensionally extended, polycyclic heteroaromatic molecules (heterocyclic
nanographenes) are a highly versatile class of organic materials, applicable as functional …

This review highlights and summarizes various optically active porphyrin and
phthalocyanine molecules prepared using a wide range of structural modification methods …

Thanks to its unusual stability, metallic gold has been used for thousands of years in jewelry,
currency, chinaware, and so forth. However, gold had not become the chemists'“precious …

This is the second set of Handbook of Porphyrin Science. Porphyrins, phthalocyanines and
their numerous analogues and derivatives are materials of tremendous importance in …

Porphyrins and phthalocyanines have outstanding chemical and thermal stability. The
macrocyclic structure and chemical reactivity of tetrapyrroles offers architectural flexibility …

Various aromatic segments have been fused onto the porphyrin periphery to create
porphyrinoids that have expanded π-conjugated networks and thus exhibit red-shifted …

The field of electronics using single-molecule components has recently received much
attention as a possible new design concept for the continued miniturisation of electronics …

Intramolecular singlet fission (ISF) is a promising photophysical process to construct more
efficient light energy conversion systems as one excited singlet state converts into two …