Exploring and leveraging aggregation effects on reactive oxygen species generation in photodynamic therapy

Z Zhuang, J Li, P Shen, Z Zhao, BZ Tang - Aggregate, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Aggregate‐level photodynamic therapy (PDT) has attracted significant interest and driven
substantial advances in multifunction phototheranostic platforms. As exemplified by two …

Ligand Exchange at Carbon: Synthetic Entry to Elusive Species and Versatile Reagents

F Krischer, VH Gessner - JACS Au, 2024 - ACS Publications
How different is carbon compared to other elements in the periodic table? Can carbon
compounds be regarded as coordination complexes with carbon as the central element …

Air-and photo-stable luminescent carbodicarbene-azaboraacenium ions

CL Deng, AD Obi, BYE Tra, SK Sarkar, DA Dickie… - Nature Chemistry, 2024 - nature.com
Substitution of a C= C bond by an isoelectronic B–N bond is a well-established strategy to
alter the electronic structure and stability of acenes. BN-substituted acenes that possess …

Redox-and Charge-State Dependent Trends in 5, 6, and 7-Membered Boron Heterocycles: A Neutral Ligand Coordination Chemistry Approach to Boracyclic Cations …

KK Hollister, KE Wentz… - Accounts of Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Boron heterocycles represent an important subset of heteroatom-incorporated
rings, attracting attention from organic, inorganic, and materials chemists. The empty pz …

Lewis superacidic heavy pnictaalkene cations: comparative assessment of carbodicarbene-stibenium and carbodicarbene-bismuthenium ions

LS Warring, JE Walley, DA Dickie, W Tiznado… - Inorganic …, 2022 - ACS Publications
We report a comprehensive assessment of Lewis acidity for a series of carbone-stibenium
and-bismuthenium ions using the Gutmann–Beckett (GB) method. These new antimony and …

Synthesis, Characterization, and Properties of Three-Dimensional Analogues of 9-Borafluorenes

C Zhang, J Wang, Z Lin, Q Ye - Inorganic Chemistry, 2022 - ACS Publications
Three-dimensional (3D) analogues of 9-borafluorenes,(C2B10H10) 2BR (R= Cl (1), Br (2), H
(3, merely as ether or silane adduct), phenyl (4), mesityl (5)), were synthesized and fully …

Cleavage of Carbodicarbenes with N2O for Accessing Stable Diazoalkenes: Two‐Fold Ligand Exchange at a C(0)‐Atom

Y He, Y Lyu, D Tymann, PW Antoni… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
The cleavage of carbophosphinocarbenes and carbodicarbenes with nitrous oxide (N2O)
leads to the formation of room‐temperature stable diazoalkenes. The utility of Ph3P/N2 and …

Synthesis and reactivity of an anionic diazoolefin

B Kooij, Z Dong, F Fadaei‐Tirani… - Angewandte …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Bent (hetero) allenes such as carbodicarbenes and carbodiphosphoranes can act as neutral
C‐donor ligands, and diverse applications in coordination chemistry have been reported. N …

Solvatochromic and aggregation-induced emission active nitrophenyl-substituted pyrrolidinone-fused-1, 2-azaborine with a pre-twisted molecular geometry

AD Campbell, K Ellis, LK Gordon, JE Riley… - Journal of Materials …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Boron–nitrogen-containing heterocycles with extended conjugated π-systems such as
polycyclic aromatic 1, 2-azaborines, hold the fascination of organic chemists due to their …

Metal‐Mediated Synthesis of a Mixed Arduengo‐Fischer Carbodicarbene Ligand

B Kooij, DW Chen, F Fadaei‐Tirani… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Carbodicarbenes are strong C‐donor ligands, which have found numerous applications in
organometallic and main group element chemistry. Herein, we report a structurally distinct …