Sergio D Ezquerra Riega, Matías E Gutierrez Suburu, Hernán B Rodríguez, Beatriz Lantaño, Martin Kleinschmidt, Christel M Marian, Cristian A Strassert
Singlet dioxygen has been widely applied in different disciplines such as medicine (photodynamic therapy or blood sterilization), remediation (wastewater treatment) or industrial processes (fine chemicals synthesis). Particularly, it can be conveniently generated by energy transfer between a photosensitizer's triplet state and triplet dioxygen upon irradiation with visible light. Among the best photosensitizers, substituted zinc(II) phthalocyanines are prominent due to their excellent photophysical properties, which can be tuned by structural modifications, such as halogen- and chalcogen-atom substitution...
April 22, 2024: Chemistry: a European Journal