Rational design in photopharmacology with molecular photoswitches

P Kobauri, FJ Dekker, W Szymanski… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Photopharmacology is an attractive approach for achieving targeted drug action with the use
of light. In photopharmacology, molecular photoswitches are introduced into the structure of …

Visible light‐driven molecular switches and motors: recent developments and applications

H Wang, HK Bisoyi, X Zhang… - Chemistry–A European …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Inspired by human vision, a diverse range of light‐driven molecular switches and motors
have been developed for fundamental understanding and application in material science …

A visible light-activated azo-fluorescent switch for imaging-guided and light-controlled release of antimycotics

Y Huang, X Zeng, X Ma, Z Lin, J Sun, W Xiao… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Azo switches are widely employed as essential components in light-responsive systems.
Here, we develop an azo-fluorescent switch that is visible light-responsive and its light …

Metal-coordinated azoaromatics: Strategies for sequential azo-reduction, isomerization and application potential

S Panda, S Dhara, A Singh, S Dey, GK Lahiri - Coordination Chemistry …, 2023 - Elsevier
Reversible electron reservoir feature of redox non-innocent ligand is an important event from
the broader perspectives of metal–ligand cooperativity in catalysis as well as in introducing …

Cascade In Situ Self‐Assembly and Bioorthogonal Reaction Enable the Enrichment of Photosensitizers and Carbonic Anhydrase Inhibitors for Pretargeted Cancer …

X Wen, W Zeng, J Zhang, Y Liu, Y Miao… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
We report here a tumor‐pretargted theranostic approach for multimodality imaging‐guided
synergistic cancer PDT by cascade alkaline phosphatase (ALP)‐mediated in situ self …

Design and synthesis of visible-light-responsive azobenzene building blocks for chemical biology

J Volarić, J Buter, AM Schulte… - The Journal of …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Tetra-ortho-fluoro-azobenzenes are a class of photoswitches useful for the construction of
visible-light-controlled molecular systems. They can be used to achieve spatio-temporal …

A carbonic anhydrase-targeted NIR-II fluorescent cisplatin theranostic nanoparticle for combined therapy of pancreatic tumors

Y Yang, Y Liu, J Weng, X Wen, Y Liu, D Ye - Biomaterials, 2024 - Elsevier
Optically active organic nanoparticles capable of emitting strong near-infrared II (NIR-II)
fluorescence and eliciting tumor hyperthermia are promising for tumor imaging and …

Using visible light to tune boronic acid–ester equilibria

JV Accardo, ER McClure, MA Mosquera… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
We report a series of azobenzene boronic acids that reversibly control the extent of diol
binding via photochemical isomerization. When the boronic acid is ortho to the azo group …

Shape morphing of hydrogels by harnessing enzyme enabled mechanoresponse

K Zhang, Y Zhou, J Zhang, Q Liu, C Hanenberg… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Hydrogels have been designed to react to many different stimuli which find broad
applications in tissue engineering and soft robotics. However, polymer networks bearing …

Visible‐light‐switchable azobenzenes: Molecular design, supramolecular systems, and applications

M Gao, D Kwaria, Y Norikane, Y Yue - Natural Sciences, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Photocontrol of functional molecules and supramolecular systems provides promising
directions for the development of innovative materials and technologies. Reversible …