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 …

Bioinorganic photochemistry: frontiers and mechanisms

K Szaciłowski, W Macyk… - Chemical …, 2005 - ACS Publications
For more than 50 years bioinorganic chemistry has remained an expanding and exciting
interdisciplinary field of science. 1-6 One of the rapidly growing and evolving new research …

Photoactive ruthenium nitrosyls: Effects of light and potential application as NO donors

MJ Rose, PK Mascharak - Coordination chemistry reviews, 2008 - Elsevier
In recent years, various exogenous nitric oxide (NO) donors have been synthesized to
modulate NO concentrations in cellular environments and control physiological processes …

Biological activity of ruthenium nitrosyl complexes

E Tfouni, DR Truzzi, A Tavares, AJ Gomes… - Nitric oxide, 2012 - Elsevier
Nitric oxide plays an important role in various biological processes, such as
neurotransmission, blood pressure control, immunological responses, and antioxidant …

Metal complexes as photochemical nitric oxide precursors: Potential applications in the treatment of tumors

AD Ostrowski, PC Ford - Dalton Transactions, 2009 - pubs.rsc.org
The bioregulatory molecule NO plays key roles in cancer biology and has been implicated in
both tumor growth and suppression. Furthermore, it is a γ-radiation sensitizer that may …

Recent advances on the development of NO-releasing molecules (NORMs) for biomedical applications

R Bhowmik, M Roy - European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry, 2024 - Elsevier
Nitric oxide (NO) is an important biological messenger as well as a signaling molecule that
participates in a broad range of physiological events and therapeutic applications in …

Tailoring NO donors metallopharmaceuticals: ruthenium nitrosyl ammines and aliphatic tetraazamacrocycles

E Tfouni, FG Doro, LE Figueiredo… - Current medicinal …, 2010 - ingentaconnect.com
The discovery of the involvement of nitric oxide (NO) in several physiological and
pathophysiological processes launched a spectacular increase in studies in areas such as …

Ru (II) and Ru (III) complexes with cyclam and related species

E Tfouni, KQ Ferreira, FG Doro, RS da Silva… - Coordination chemistry …, 2005 - Elsevier
The properties of cyclam, cyclen, and 1-(3-propylammonium) complexes of ruthenium
(II/III),[Ru (macrocycle) LL′] n+, and related species are reviewed. L and L′ are ligands …

Photogeneration of two metastable NO linkage isomers with high populations of up to 76% in trans-[RuCl (py) 4 (NO)][PF 6] 2· ½H 2 O

D Schaniel, B Cormary, I Malfant, L Valade… - Physical Chemistry …, 2007 - pubs.rsc.org
Two light-induced metastable NO linkage isomers with oxygen-bound (SI) and side-on
configuration (SII) of NO are generated in trans-[RuCl (py) 4 (NO)][PF6] 2· ½H2O. Irradiation …

Dark cytotoxicity beyond photo-induced one of silica nanoparticles incorporated with RuII nitrosyl complexes and luminescent {Mo6I8} cluster units

O Bochkova, S Fedorenko, A Mikhailov, G Kostin… - … of Photochemistry and …, 2024 - Elsevier
The present work reports the synthesis of the silica nanoparticles (SNs) incorporated by two
photoactive components, which are the representatives of Ru II nitrosyl complexes and [{Mo …