Photosensitizers in Medicine, Environment, and Security

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Nyokong, Tebello (Editor), Ahsen, Vefa (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2012.
• Subjects: Chemistry.; Organic chemistry.; Medicinal chemistry.; Environment.; Organic Chemistry.; Medicinal Chemistry.; Environment, general.

Photosensitizers in Medicine, Environment, and Security provides a throughout overview of photosensitizers, detailing their chemistry, properties and applications with a special focus on tetrapyrrolic compounds. The design of photosensitizers (including the theoretical chemistry contribution) as wel...

Table of Contents:

• Design and conception of photosensitizers
• Recent developments in the synthesis of porphyrin and phthalocyanine photosensitizers and related systems
• The contribution of theoretical chemistry to the drug design in photodynamic therapy
• Photochemical and photophysical characterization
• Sensitization of singlet oxygen formation in aqueous media
• The use of phthalocyanines and related complexes in photodynamic therapy
• Combination Therapy: Complexing of QDs with tetrapyrrols and other dyes
• Exogenously induced endogenous Photosensitizers
• Photocatalytic degradation of pollutants with emphasis on phthalocyanines and related complexes
• Photocatalysis for synthetic purposes
• Photosensitizers in solar energy conversion
• Chromophores for optical power limiting.