A Visible-Light-Sensitive Caged Serotonin

Caged Serotonin for Visible-Light Photodelivery

A fast, visible-light-sensitive azobenzene for bioorthogonal ligation.

Azobenzenes have been used as photoresponsive units for the control of numerous biological processes. Primary prerequisites for such applications are site-selective incorporation of photoswitchable units into biomolecules and the possibility of using non-destructive and deep-tissue-penetrating visible light for the photoisomerization. Here we report a push-pull azobenzene that readily undergoes...

A visible light driven doped TiO2 nanophotocatalyst: Preparation and characterization

A useful nanophotocatalyst (La,S-TiO2) was prepared by a sol-gel method and characterized by UV–vis diffuse reflectance spectroscopy (DRS), X-ray diffraction (XRD), photoluminescence emission spectroscopy (PL) and scanning electron microscopy (FESEM). The results showed that the La,S-TiO2, which calcined at 550 °C, contained only anatase phaseand its crystal size was 23 nm...

Long conjugated 2-nitrobenzyl derivative caged anticancer prodrugs with visible light regulated release: preparation and functionalizations.

A series of anticancer prodrugs with different chemical functional groups were prepared, in which the styryl conjugated 2-nitrobenzyl derivatives were introduced as the phototrigger to regulate the drug (chlorambucil) release. Compared to the common 4,5-dimethoxy-2-nitrobenzyl caged compounds, most of the prodrugs exhibited large and redshifted one-photon absorption within the visible range. On...

A visible light driven doped TiO2 nanophotocatalyst: Preparation and characterization

A useful nanophotocatalyst (La,S-TiO2) was prepared by a sol-gel method and characterized by UV–vis diffuse reflectance spectroscopy (DRS), X-ray diffraction (XRD), photoluminescence emission spectroscopy (PL) and scanning electron microscopy (FESEM). The results showed that the La,S-TiO2, which calcined at 550 °C, contained only anatase phaseand its crystal size was 23 nm...