Improved transition metal photosensitizers to drive advances in photocatalysis

D Kim, VQ Dang, TS Teets - Chemical Science, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
To function effectively in a photocatalytic application, a photosensitizer's light absorption,
excited-state lifetime, and redox potentials, both in the ground state and excited state, are …

Luminescent and Photoredox‐Active Molybdenum (0) Complexes Competitive with Isoelectronic Ruthenium (II) Polypyridines

T Jin, D Wagner, OS Wenger - … Chemie International Edition, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Ruthenium (II) complexes with chelating polypyridine ligands are among the most frequently
investigated compounds in photophysics and photochemistry, owing to their favorable …

Aminomethylations of electron-deficient compounds—bringing iron photoredox catalysis into play

A Ilic, BR Strücker, CE Johnson, S Hainz, R Lomoth… - Chemical …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
The α-functionalisation of N-containing compounds is an area of broad interest in synthetic
chemistry due to their presence in biologically active substances among others. Visible light …

Coulomb interactions for mediator-enhanced sensitized triplet–triplet annihilation upconversion in solution

F Glaser, M Schmitz, C Kerzig - Nanoscale, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Sensitized triplet–triplet annihilation upconversion offers an attractive possibility to replace a
high-energy photon by two photons with lower energy through the combination of a light …

Controlling the Photophysical Properties of a Series of Isostructural d6 Complexes Based on Cr0, MnI, and FeII

C Wegeberg, D Häussinger, S Kupfer… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Development of first-row transition metal complexes with similar luminescence and
photoredox properties as widely used RuII polypyridines is attractive because metals from …

Low-energy photoredox catalysis

DC Cabanero, T Rovis - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2024 - nature.com
With the advent of photoredox catalysis, new synthetic paradigms have been established
with many novel transformations being achieved. Nevertheless, modern photoredox …

Recent advances in the development of metallodrugs for cancer chemoimmunotherapy

F Wei, J Liang, XC Shen, Y Pan, Y He… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2025 - Elsevier
Chemoimmunotherapy, with the advantages of chemotherapeutics and
immunotherapeutics, has emerged as an effective strategy for cancer treatment, decreasing …

Reversible Photoinduced Ligand Substitution in a Luminescent Chromium (0) Complex

N Sinha, J Wellauer, T Maisuradze… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Light-triggered dissociation of ligands forms the basis for many compounds of interest for
photoactivated chemotherapy (PACT), in which medicinally active substances are released …

Low-power, non-coherent light-triggered two-photon absorption via extending the lifetime of the transition state

L Zeng, XY Wang, N Li, J Pang, XH Bu - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2024 - Elsevier
Materials with multi-photon absorption (MPA) feature, are highly desirable for applications
such as deep-seated tumor treatment, high spatiotemporal resolution bioimaging …

Iron (III) Carbene Complexes with Tunable Excited State Energies for Photoredox and Upconversion

J Wellauer, F Ziereisen, N Sinha… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Substituting precious elements in luminophores and photocatalysts by abundant first-row
transition metals remains a significant challenge, and iron continues to be particularly …