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Chemical Communications

An improved singlet oxygen sensitizer with two-photon absorption and emission in the biological transparency window as a result of ground state symmetry-breaking†

Thibault Gallavardin,a   Chloé Armagnat,a   Olivier Maury,a   Patrice L. Baldeck,ab   Mikael Lindgren,ac   Cyrille Monnereau*a  and  Chantal Andraud*a  

* Corresponding authors

a CNRSUMR 5182, Université Lyon 1, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, 46 allée d'Italie, 69364 Lyon Cedex 07, France
E-mail: chantal.andraud@ens-lyon.fr, cyrille.monnereau@ens-lyon.fr

b Laboratoire de Spectrométrie Physique Université Joseph Fourier, CNRS–UMR 5588, BP 87 F-38402 Saint Martin d'Hères, France

c Department of Physics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

Abstract

A chromophore featuring a diyne bridge that connects two dibromobenzene moieties shows a much improved two-photon singlet oxygen generation ability in the biological transparency window compared to a related and relevant literature benchmark, as a result of a distorted ground state.

Graphical abstract: An improved singlet oxygen sensitizer with two-photon absorption and emission in the biological transparency window as a result of ground state symmetry-breaking

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C2CC15904J
Article type
Communication
Submitted
22 Sep 2011
Accepted
06 Dec 2011
First published
19 Dec 2011

Chem. Commun., 2012,48, 1689-1691

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An improved singlet oxygen sensitizer with two-photon absorption and emission in the biological transparency window as a result of ground state symmetry-breaking

T. Gallavardin, C. Armagnat, O. Maury, P. L. Baldeck, M. Lindgren, C. Monnereau and C. Andraud, Chem. Commun., 2012, 48, 1689 DOI: 10.1039/C2CC15904J

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