Transition metal complexes and photodynamic therapy from a tumor-centered approach: challenges, opportunities, and highlights from the development of TLD1433

S Monro, KL Colon, H Yin, J Roque III, P Konda… - Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Transition metal complexes are of increasing interest as photosensitizers in photodynamic
therapy (PDT) and, more recently, for photochemotherapy (PCT). In recent years, Ru (II) …

Spin-vibronic mechanism for intersystem crossing

TJ Penfold, E Gindensperger, C Daniel… - Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Intersystem crossing (ISC), formally forbidden within nonrelativistic quantum theory, is the
mechanism by which a molecule changes its spin state. It plays an important role in the …

Measurement of the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital energies of molecular organic semiconductors

PI Djurovich, EI Mayo, SR Forrest, ME Thompson - Organic Electronics, 2009 - Elsevier
The lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO) energies of a variety of molecular organic
semiconductors have been evaluated using inverse photoelectron spectroscopy (IPES) data …

Ru (II) dyads derived from α-oligothiophenes: A new class of potent and versatile photosensitizers for PDT

G Shi, S Monro, R Hennigar, J Colpitts, J Fong… - Coordination Chemistry …, 2015 - Elsevier
Ru (II) dyads derived from organic units that impart low-lying 3 IL excited states combine the
most attractive features of organic photosensitizers with those of coordination complexes …

Aiming at an accurate prediction of vibrational and electronic spectra for medium‐to‐large molecules: An overview

J Bloino, A Baiardi, M Biczysko - International Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
In this tutorial review, we present some effective methodologies available for the simulation
of vibrational and vibrationally resolved electronic spectra of medium‐to‐large molecules …

Building Blocks for N-Type Molecular and Polymeric Electronics. Perfluoroalkyl- versus Alkyl-Functionalized Oligothiophenes (nTs; n = 2−6). Systematic Synthesis …

A Facchetti, MH Yoon, CL Stern… - Journal of the …, 2004 - ACS Publications
The synthesis, comparative physicochemical properties, and solid-state structures of five
oligothiophene (nT) series differing in substituent nature and attachment, regiochemistry …

Spin− orbit coupling and intersystem crossing in conjugated polymers: a configuration interaction description

D Beljonne, Z Shuai, G Pourtois… - The Journal of Physical …, 2001 - ACS Publications
Configuration− interaction calculations are performed to describe the singlet and triplet
excited states of oligothiophene and oligo (phenylene ethynylene) conjugated chains …

Fluorescent thiophene-based materials and their outlook for emissive applications

SC Rasmussen, SJ Evenson… - Chemical …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Although thiophene-based materials are among the most widely studied conjugated
materials for a number of technological applications, most discussions of emissive …

α-Oligofurans

O Gidron, Y Diskin-Posner… - Journal of the American …, 2010 - ACS Publications
A new type of organic electronic material, consisting of long α-oligofurans containing up to
nine rings, was synthesized and characterized. α-Oligofurans are highly fluorescent, with a …

Improved prediction of properties of π-conjugated oligomers with range-separated hybrid density functionals

U Salzner, A Aydin - Journal of chemical theory and computation, 2011 - ACS Publications
Range-separated hybrid functionals along with global hybrids and pure density functionals
have been employed to calculate geometries, ionization energies (IP) s, electron affinities …