Silica nanoreactors from silylated riboflavin for efficient singlet oxygen delivery

Natalia C Angeluzzi; Marcelo Muñoz; Daniela T Marquez; Mauricio S Baptista; Ana Maria Edwards; Emilio I Alarcon; Juan C Scaiano

doi:10.1039/c4tb00170b

Silica nanoreactors from silylated riboflavin for efficient singlet oxygen delivery

J Mater Chem B. 2014 Jul 21;2(27):4221-4225. doi: 10.1039/c4tb00170b. Epub 2014 May 30.

Authors

Natalia C Angeluzzi¹, Marcelo Muñoz, Daniela T Marquez, Mauricio S Baptista, Ana Maria Edwards, Emilio I Alarcon, Juan C Scaiano

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry and Centre for Catalysis Research and Innovation, University of Ottawa, 10 Marie Curie, Ottawa K1N 6N5, Canada. scaiano@photo.chem.uottawa.ca.

PMID: 32261560
DOI: 10.1039/c4tb00170b

Abstract

Silylation of riboflavin allowed its incorporation into spherical SiO₂ nanoparticles that were able to generate singlet oxygen and oxidize human serum albumin while conferring riboflavin remarkable photostability.