Red-Shifting Azobenzene Photoswitches for in Vivo Use

Accounts of Chemical Research

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 2662-2670

  Dong, Mingxin ^a   Babalhavaeji, Amirhossein ^a   Samanta, Subhas ^a,b   Beharry, Andrew A ^a,c   Woolley, G Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZO COMPOUND;

ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; HUMAN; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

ANIMALS; AZO COMPOUNDS; HUMANS; PHOTOCHEMICAL PROCESSES; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 84945901276     PISSN: 00014842     EISSN: 15204898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.5b00270     Document Type: Article

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