Photoactive Metal-to-Ligand Charge Transfer Excited States in 3d6 Complexes with Cr0, MnI, FeII, and CoIII

N Sinha, OS Wenger - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2023 - ACS Publications
Many coordination complexes and organometallic compounds with the 4d6 and 5d6
valence electron configurations have outstanding photophysical and photochemical …

Phototherapeutic anticancer strategies with first-row transition metal complexes: a critical review

L Gourdon, K Cariou, G Gasser - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) and photoactivated chemotherapy (PACT) are therapeutic
techniques based on a photosensitizer (PS) and light. These techniques allow the spatial …

Luminescent first-row transition metal complexes

C Wegeberg, OS Wenger - Jacs Au, 2021 - ACS Publications
Precious and rare elements have traditionally dominated inorganic photophysics and
photochemistry, but now we are witnessing a paradigm shift toward cheaper and more …

The great strides of iron photosensitizers for contemporary organic photoredox catalysis: On our way to the holy grail?

F Glaser, A Aydogan, B Elias… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2024 - Elsevier
The scarcity of 2 nd and 3 rd row transition metals such as ruthenium, iridium, rhodium and
osmium, coupled with a global desire for sustainable chemistry has led to the resurgence of …

Molecular Design Principles to Elongate the Metal-to-Ligand Charge Transfer Excited-State Lifetimes of Square-Planar Nickel (II) Complexes

T Ogawa, N Sinha, B Pfund, A Prescimone… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Square-planar NiII complexes and their electronically excited states play key roles in cross-
coupling catalysis and could offer new opportunities to complement well-known …

Cobalt (III) carbene complex with an electronic excited-state structure similar to cyclometalated iridium (III) compounds

N Sinha, B Pfund, C Wegeberg… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Many organometallic iridium (III) complexes have photoactive excited states with mixed
metal-to-ligand and intraligand charge transfer (MLCT/ILCT) character, which form the basis …

A photoreactive iron (II) complex luminophore

W Leis, MA Argüello Cordero… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Controlling the order and lifetimes of electronically excited states is essential to effective light-
to-potential energy conversion by molecular chromophores. This work reports a luminescent …

Spin-flip luminescence

WR Kitzmann, J Moll, K Heinze - Photochemical & Photobiological …, 2022 - Springer
In molecular photochemistry, charge-transfer emission is well understood and widely
exploited. In contrast, luminescent metal-centered transitions only came into focus in recent …

Photoactive iron complexes: more sustainable, but still a challenge

P Dierks, Y Vukadinovic, M Bauer - Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
On transition metals such as iron rests lots of hope to replace precious metal catalysts in the
field of photochemistry for a more sustainable future. Indeed, significant progress has been …

First‐Row d6 Metal Complex Enables Photon Upconversion and Initiates Blue Light‐Dependent Polymerization with Red Light

C Wang, C Wegeberg, OS Wenger - Angewandte Chemie, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Photosensitizers for sensitized triplet‐triplet annihilation upconversion (sTTA‐UC) often rely
on precious heavy metals, whereas coordination complexes based on abundant first‐row …