A little over 100 years ago, Raab reported the killing of the microorganism paramecia with
the combination of acridine and light. The importance of oxygen in the process was …

The presence of heterocyclic moieties in all kinds of organic compounds of interest in
biology, pharmacology, optics, electronics, material sciences, and so on is sufficiently known …

Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is an emerging treatment modality for a range of disease
classes, both cancerous and noncancerous. This has brought about an active pursuit of new …

Following immediately after the serendipitous discovery of N-confused porphyrins,
remarkably diverse carbaporphyrinoid systems have been synthesized and investigated. By …

Cationic porphyrins are known to bind to and stabilize different types of G-quadruplexes.
Recent studies have shown the biological relevance of the intramolecular parallel G …

Opinion Statement Photodynamic therapy (PDT) has garnered increasing attention in cancer
treatment because of its advantages such as minimal invasiveness and selective …

The focus of this review is to describe the state-of-art in the development of innovative drug
delivery systems for phthalocyanines as photosensitizers for photodynamic therapy (PDT) …

The photodynamic process induces cell damage and death by the combined effect of a
photosensitizer (PS), visible light, and molecular oxygen, which generate singlet oxygen …

With the development of photodynamic therapy (PDT), remarkable studies have been
conducted to generate photosensitisers (PSs), especially porphyrin PSs. A variety of …

Monoheteroatom substituted porphyrins and diheteroatom substituted porhyrins resulting
from the replacement of one and two nitrogen atoms, respectively, are very stable aromatic …