Visible-light unmasking of heterocyclic quinone methide radicals from alkoxyamines

  • Patrick Kielty
  • , Pau Farras
  • , Patrick McArdle
  • , Dennis A. Smith
  • , Fawaz Aldabbagh

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Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)14665-14668
JournalChemical Communications
Volume55
Issue number97
Early online date14 Nov 2019
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 18 Dec 2019

Bibliographical note

Impact: Disclosed is an alternative to bioreductive unmasking of methides, using controllable soft visible-light release of nitroxides from alkoxyamines. We envisage wide-ranging applications from this new class of photoactive molecules from visible-light activated cytotoxins to radical initiators for vinyl monomer photopolymerization with the possibility of forming polymers end-functionalized with antibiotics.

Keywords

  • Cancer studies
  • anti-cancer
  • nitroxides
  • radicals
  • trapping

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