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 …

Luminescent and photofunctional transition metal complexes: From molecular design to diagnostic and therapeutic applications

LCC Lee, KKW Lo - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2022 - ACS Publications
There has been emerging interest in the exploitation of the photophysical and
photochemical properties of transition metal complexes for diagnostic and therapeutic …

Luminescent Complexes of Platinum, Iridium, and Coinage Metals Containing N-Heterocyclic Carbene Ligands: Design, Structural Diversity, and Photophysical …

H Amouri - Chemical Reviews, 2022 - ACS Publications
The employment of N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) to design luminescent metal
compounds has been the focus of recent intense investigations because of the strong σ …

Long-lived emissive probes for time-resolved photoluminescence bioimaging and biosensing

KY Zhang, Q Yu, H Wei, S Liu, Q Zhao… - Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
In this Review article, we systematically summarize the design and applications of various
kinds of long-lived emissive probes for bioimaging and biosensing via time-resolved …

Supramolecular polymers in aqueous media

E Krieg, MMC Bastings, P Besenius… - Chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
This review discusses one-dimensional supramolecular polymers that form in aqueous
media. First, naturally occurring supramolecular polymers are described, in particular …

In vivo metallophilic self-assembly of a light-activated anticancer drug

XQ Zhou, P Wang, V Ramu, L Zhang, S Jiang, X Li… - Nature Chemistry, 2023 - nature.com
Self-assembling molecular drugs combine the easy preparation typical of small-molecule
chemotherapy and the tumour-targeting properties of drug–nanoparticle conjugates …

Highly phosphorescent platinum (II) emitters: photophysics, materials and biological applications

K Li, GSM Tong, Q Wan, G Cheng, WY Tong… - Chemical …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
In recent years a blossoming interest in the synthesis, photophysics and application of
phosphorescent Pt (II) complexes, particularly on their uses in bioimaging, photocatalysis …

Strategies to create hierarchical self-assembled structures via cooperative non-covalent interactions

C Rest, R Kandanelli, G Fernández - Chemical Society Reviews, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Cooperative phenomena are common processes involved in the hierarchical self-assembly
of multiple systems in nature, such as the tobacco mosaic virus and a cell's cytoskeleton …

BODIPY based metal-organic macrocycles and frameworks: Recent therapeutic developments

G Gupta, Y Sun, A Das, PJ Stang, CY Lee - Coordination chemistry reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Boron dipyrromethene, commonly known as BODIPY, based metal–organic macrocycles
(MOCs) and metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) represent an interesting part of materials …

Self-assembly of amphiphilic amino acid derivatives for biomedical applications

T Wang, C Ménard-Moyon, A Bianco - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Amino acids are one of the simplest biomolecules and they play an essential role in many
biological processes. They have been extensively used as building blocks for the synthesis …