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Front Cover: Merging of a Perylene Moiety Enables a Ru II Photosensitizer with Long‐Lived Excited States and the Efficient Production of Singlet Oxygen (Chem. Eur. J. 1/2022)
Author(s) -
Schmid MarieAnn,
Brückmann Jannik,
Bösking Julian,
Nauroozi Djawed,
Karnahl Michael,
Rau Sven,
Tschierlei Stefanie
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
chemistry – a european journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.687
H-Index - 242
eISSN - 1521-3765
pISSN - 0947-6539
DOI - 10.1002/chem.202104448
Subject(s) - photosensitizer , chromophore , photochemistry , singlet oxygen , ruthenium , moiety , perylene , excited state , singlet state , chemistry , photodynamic therapy , oxygen , catalysis , molecule , stereochemistry , organic chemistry , physics , atomic physics
Two are better than one : In a joint study, groups in two laboratories at TU Braunschweig and Ulm University present a novel bichromophoric Ru II complex. This unique photosensitizer was obtained by fusing a ruthenium polypyridine chromophore with an additional perylene dye. This photosensitizer exhibits a strong absorptivity in the visible region and an enhanced excited state lifetime of 8 μs. In addition, this complex enables the efficient production of singlet oxygen. More information can be found in the Research Article by S. Rau, S. Tschierlei, et al. (DOI: 10.1002/chem.202103609).