A singlet oxygen photosensitizer enables photoluminescent monitoring of singlet oxygen doses

Youngmin You; Eun Jin Cho; Hyeokseon Kwon; Jieun Hwang; Seung Eun Lee

doi:10.1039/c5cc08411c

A singlet oxygen photosensitizer enables photoluminescent monitoring of singlet oxygen doses

Chem Commun (Camb). 2016 Jan 14;52(4):780-3. doi: 10.1039/c5cc08411c.

Authors

Youngmin You¹, Eun Jin Cho², Hyeokseon Kwon¹, Jieun Hwang¹, Seung Eun Lee¹

Affiliations

¹ Division of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Ewha Womans University, Seoul 120-750, Korea. odds2@ewha.ac.kr.
² Department of Advanced Materials Engineering for Information and Electronics, Kyung Hee University, Gyeonggi-do 446-710, Korea.

PMID: 26568516
DOI: 10.1039/c5cc08411c

Abstract

A molecular dyad that can photosensitize and visualize singlet oxygen ((1)O2) was developed. The dual photofunction enables ratiometric photoluminescence monitoring of the progress of (1)O2-induced cell death.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Cell Death / drug effects*
Humans
Photosensitizing Agents / chemistry*
Photosensitizing Agents / pharmacology*
Singlet Oxygen / chemistry*
Singlet Oxygen / metabolism

Substances

Photosensitizing Agents
Singlet Oxygen