Recent strategies to develop innovative photosensitizers for enhanced photodynamic therapy

TC Pham, VN Nguyen, Y Choi, S Lee, J Yoon - Chemical reviews, 2021‏ - ACS Publications
This review presents a robust strategy to design photosensitizers (PSs) for various species.
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a photochemical-based treatment approach that involves the …

Recent advances in heterocyclic nanographenes and other polycyclic heteroaromatic compounds

A Borissov, YK Maurya, L Moshniaha… - Chemical …, 2021‏ - ACS Publications
This review surveys recent progress in the chemistry of polycyclic heteroaromatic molecules
with a focus on structural diversity and synthetic methodology. The article covers literature …

Recent advances in metal complexes for antimicrobial photodynamic therapy

TW Rees, PY Ho, J Hess - ChemBioChem, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a growing global problem with more than 1 million deaths
due to AMR infection in 2019 alone. New and innovative therapeutics are required to …

[HTML][HTML] Advances on antimicrobial photodynamic inactivation mediated by Zn (II) porphyrins

THS Souza, JF Sarmento-Neto, SO Souza… - … of Photochemistry and …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Over the years, microorganisms have developed several resistance mechanisms against
standard treatments, thus limiting the effect of drugs and rendering ineffective therapies …

Balancing charge transfer and Frenkel exciton coupling leads to excimer formation in molecular dimers: Implications for singlet fission

YJ Bae, D Shimizu, JD Schultz, G Kang… - The Journal of …, 2020‏ - ACS Publications
Photoexcitation of molecular chromophore aggregates can form excimer states that play a
significant role in photophysical processes such as charge and energy transfer as well as …

Interactions of Co (II)-and Zn (II) porphyrin of 5, 10, 15, 20-tetrakis (1-methyl-4-pyridinio) porphyrin with DNA in Aqueous Solution and Their Antimicrobial Activities

NJ Upoma, N Akter, FK Ferdousi, MZ Sultan… - ACS …, 2024‏ - ACS Publications
Antibiotics are frequently used to treat, prevent, or control bacterial infections, but in recent
years, infections resistant to all known classes of conventional antibiotics have significantly …

Cationic Solution and Solid‐State Emitters–Robust Imaging Agents for Cells, Bacteria, and Protists

J Dubbert, A Höing, N Graupner… - … A European Journal, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
A library of eight different cationic emitters with emission properties in solution and in solid‐
state (solution and solid‐state emitters–SSSE) is presented. These compounds, bearing …

Novel porphyrin-containing hydrogels obtained by frontal polymerization: Synthesis, characterization and optical properties

RD Martínez-Serrano, V Ugone, P Porcu… - Polymer, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Frontal polymerization was successfully used to prepare two series of copolymers from a
tetraphenylporphyrin-containing monomer (TPP-TEG-MA) and poly (ethylene glycol) methyl …

Porphyrin–ryleneimide hybrids: tuning of visible and near-infrared absorption by chromophore desymmetrization

S Kumar, YK Maurya, S Kang, P Chmielewski… - Organic …, 2020‏ - ACS Publications
Unsymmetrically fused porphyrins containing one or two naphthalimide subunits were
prepared in modular syntheses relying on electron-rich and electron-poor pyrrole building …

Synthesis, Structure, Photophysics, and Singlet Oxygen Sensitization by a Platinum(II) Complex of Meso‐Tetra‐Acenaphthyl Porphyrin

A Garai, M Villa, M Marchini, SK Patra… - European Journal of …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
A new platinum (II) porphyrin complex has been synthesized and characterized via various
spectroscopic techniques. Single‐crystal XRD analysis reveals that the geometry around the …