Near-unity quantum yields for intersystem crossing and singlet oxygen generation in polymethine-like molecules: Design and experimental realization

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 2354-2360

  Webster, Scott ^a   Peceli, Davorin ^a   Hu, Honghua ^a   Padilha, Lazaro A ^a   Przhonska, Olga V ^a,b   Masunov, Artem E ^a,c   Gerasov, Andriy O ^d   Kachkovski, Alexey D ^d   Slominsky, Yurii L ^d   Tolmachev, Alexey I ^d   Kurdyukov, Vladimir V ^d   Viniychuk, Olexander O ^d   Barrasso, Emma ^e   Lepkowicz, Richard ^e   Hagan, David J ^a   Van Stryland, Eric W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (Ukraine)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Ukraine)

^e ROSE HULMAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC TRANSITION; ENERGY DIFFERENCES; HEAVY ATOMS; INTERSYSTEM CROSSING; OXYGEN ATOM; PHOTOPHYSICAL PROPERTIES; POLYMETHINE; QUANTUM CHEMICAL CALCULATIONS; SINGLET OXYGEN GENERATION; SQUARAINES; SULFUR ATOMS; TRIPLET STATE; TWO-PHOTON PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPIES;

GAS GENERATORS; OXYGEN; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; QUANTUM YIELD; SULFUR;

ATOMS;

EID: 77955406527     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz100381v     Document Type: Article

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