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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