Abstract
© 2017 American Chemical Society.Applicability of phototherapeutic CO-releasing molecules (photoCORMs) is limited because they are activated by harmful and poorly tissue-penetrating near-ultraviolet light. Here, a strategy is demonstrated to activate classical photoCORM Mn2(CO)10 using red light (635 nm). By mixing in solution a triplet photosensitizer (PS) with the photoCORM and shining red light, energy transfer occurs from triplet excited-state 3PS∗ to a photolabile triplet state of Mn2(CO)10, which, like under near-UV irradiation, led to complete release of carbonyls. Crucially, such "triplet-sensitized CO-release" occurred in solid-state materials: when PS and Mn2(CO)10 were embedded in electrospun nonwoven fabrics, CO was liberated upon irradiation with low-intensity red light (≤36 mW 635 nm).
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 15292-15295 |
Journal | Journal of the American Chemical Society |
Volume | 139 |
Issue number | 43 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Nov 2017 |
Externally published | Yes |
Funding
This work was supported by a grant from German Research Foundation (DFG) for supporting FOR 1738 (grant number SCHI 1175/2-2). A.S. thanks the DFG for a Heisenberg fellowship (grant numbers SCHI 1175/4-1 and SCHI 1175/5-1). ERC is ackowledged for a Starting grant to S.B. NWO is kindly ackowledged for financial support of S.B. via a VIDI grant.
Funders | Funder number |
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Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft | SCHI 1175/2-2, SCHI 1175/5-1, SCHI 1175/4-1 |