ReviewChemical Society reviews2021
Molecular photoswitches in aqueous environments.
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105 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Benchmark Reference Data and Computational Protocols for Predicting Excitation Energies of Thioindigoid Photoswitches.Journal of computational chemistry · 2026Article
- Carbon Quantum Dots as a Luminescent Platform for Photoswitchable Bioactive Hybrids: Tuning Butyrylcholinesterase Inhibition Through Functional Group Engineering.Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Design Rules for Tuning Thermal Lifetimes of Arylazopyrazole Photoswitches.ACS central science · 2026Article
- Optically Responsive Field-Effect Transistors Based on Graphene/Diarylethene Hybrid Films.ACS omega · 2026Article
- Light-Controlled Folding and Chiroptical Sensing of G-Quadruplex DNA.The journal of physical chemistry letters · 2026Article
- Light and Dark Cycles Control the Structural Evolution of Photoresponsive Supramolecular Systems.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2026Article
- Toward Chromoselective Transformations in Biological Systems: Perspectives and Challenges.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2026Review
- All-Visible Light-Activated Photoswitching of Diarylethenes via Direct Triplet Sensitization From Low-Toxicity ZnSe/ZnS Quantum Dots.Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2026Article
- Image-guided activation of drugs with electromagnetic radiation.Nature chemical biology · 2026Review
- Light-responsive DNA nanostructures.Nature reviews. Chemistry · 2026Review
- Thermally Bistable Stiff Stilbene Photoswitches and Polymer Applications.Chemical record (New York, N.Y.) · 2026Article
- Photovermellogens: Minimalistic Pyridinium-Based Acylhydrazones with Photoswitchable Basicity for Operation in Aqueous Media.The Journal of organic chemistry · 2026Article
- Multistate photoswitches beyond on and off.Nature communications · 2026Review
- Engineering Robust Supramolecular Nanoassemblies from Amino-Acid Functionalized Stiff-Stilbene Amphiphiles.Small science · 2026Article
- Metal-Dependent Photodissociation of Hydrazone Photoswitches from Rare-Earth Complexes.Journal of the American Chemical Society · 2026Article
- Light-Assisted Akamptisomerization: Excited-State Bond-Angle Reflection (ESBAR) as a Molecular Photoswitching Element in BInorganic chemistry · 2026Article
- Effects of Supramolecular Interactions on E/Z-Isomerizations in Water and Their Importance for Biological Applications.Archiv der Pharmazie · 2026Review
- Optimizing photon conversion routes in cinnamate derivatives.Communications chemistry · 2026Article
- All-visible-light-responsive porous aromatic frameworks manipulate COProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
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Abstract
Molecular photoswitches enable dynamic control of processes with high spatiotemporal precision, using light as external stimulus, and hence are ideal tools for different research areas spanning from chemical biology to smart materials. Photoswitches are typically organic molecules that feature extended aromatic systems to make them responsive to (visible) light. However, this renders them inherently lipophilic, while water-solubility is of crucial importance to apply photoswitchable organic molecules in biological systems, like in the rapidly emerging field of photopharmacology. Several strategies for solubilizing organic molecules in water are known, but there are not yet clear rules for applying them to photoswitchable molecules. Importantly, rendering photoswitches water-soluble has a serious impact on both their photophysical and biological properties, which must be taken into consideration when designing new systems. Altogether, these aspects pose considerable challenges for successfully applying molecular photoswitches in aqueous systems, and in particular in biologically relevant media. In this review, we focus on fully water-soluble photoswitches, such as those used in biological environments, in both
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