Singlet oxygen: there is indeed something new under the sun

PR Ogilby - Chemical Society Reviews, 2010 - pubs.rsc.org
Singlet oxygen, O2 (a1Δg), the lowest excited electronic state of molecular oxygen, has
been known to the scientific community for∼ 80 years. It has a characteristic chemistry that …

Physical mechanisms of generation and deactivation of singlet oxygen

C Schweitzer, R Schmidt - Chemical reviews, 2003 - ACS Publications
For more than 70 years, researchers in several areas of science have been intrigued by the
physical and chemical properties of the lowest excited states of molecular oxygen. With two …

Triplet states in organic semiconductors

A Köhler, H Bässler - Materials Science and Engineering: R: Reports, 2009 - Elsevier
Today's technology is not possible without optoelectronic devices such as light-emitting
diodes, transistors and solar cells. These basic units of modern electronic appliances may …

Strategies to improve photostabilities in ultrasensitive fluorescence spectroscopy

J Widengren, A Chmyrov, C Eggeling… - The journal of …, 2007 - ACS Publications
Given the particular importance of dye photostability for single-molecule and fluorescence
fluctuation spectroscopy investigations, refined strategies were explored for how to …

Photosensitized generation of singlet oxygen

R Schmidt - Photochemistry and photobiology, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
This work gives an overview of what is currently known about the mechanisms of the
photosensitized production of singlet oxygen. Quenching of ππ* excited triplet states by O2 …

Mitigating unwanted photophysical processes for improved single-molecule fluorescence imaging

R Dave, DS Terry, JB Munro, SC Blanchard - Biophysical journal, 2009 - cell.com
Organic fluorophores common to fluorescence-based investigations suffer from unwanted
photophysical properties, including blinking and photobleaching, which limit their overall …

Homo and hetero molecular 3D nanographenes employing a cyclooctatetraene scaffold

J Urieta-Mora, M Krug, W Alex, J Perles… - Journal of the …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Two novel homo and hetero three-dimensional nanographenes, NG1 and NG2, featuring a
cyclooctatetraene core are designed, synthesized, and characterized. A concise and …

Singlet‐Oxygen (1Δg) Production by Ruthenium(II) complexes containing polyazaheterocyclic ligands in methanol and in water

D Garcìa‐Fresnadillo, Y Georgiadou… - Helvetica chimica …, 1996 - Wiley Online Library
In the context of our studies on ruthenium (II) complexes containing polyazaheterocyclic
ligands, we have determined the rate constants of quenching by molecular oxygen (kq) of …

Aromatic ketones as standards for singlet molecular oxygen O2 (1Δg) photosensitization. Time-resolved photoacoustic and near-IR emission studies

C Martí, O Jürgens, O Cuenca, M Casals… - Journal of Photochemistry …, 1996 - Elsevier
Time-resolved near-IR emission and optoacoustic calorimetry studies were carried out on
the aromatic ketones phenalenone, benzanthrone, 4-phenylbenzophenone and the …

Fluorescent probes and bioconjugation chemistries for single-molecule fluorescence analysis of biomolecules

AN Kapanidis, S Weiss - The Journal of chemical physics, 2002 - pubs.aip.org
The past decade marked one of the most exciting scientific developments born of the
interaction of physics, chemistry, and biology: the ability to perform real-time …