Literature collection

Our literature citations are some examples for the impotant application of the current porphyrins chemistry. The literature collection not extols the claim of completeness and relevance at the itamization declared applications. With this service we would like to help our customers to find out the exciting field of the porphyrins chemistry.
Medical applications

1. Photodynamic therapy (PDT) and diagnostics for malignant and non-oncological diseases

Bonett R., Photosensitizers of the porphyrin and phthalocyanine series for photodynamic therapy, Chemical Society Reviews, 1995, 19-33

Jori G., Tumor photosensitizers: approaches to enhance the selectivity and efficiecy of photodynamic therapy, J. Photochem. Photobiol. B: Biol., 36,1996, 87-93

Hombrecher H. K., Schell C., Thiem J., Synthesis and investigation of a galactopyranosyl-cholesteryloxy substituted porphyrin, Bioorg. Med. Chem Lett., 6, 1996, 1199-1202

Tita, S.P.S and Perussi, J.R., The effect of porphyrins on normal and transformed mouse cell lines in the presence of visible light, Braz. J. Med. Biol. Res., 34, 2001,1331-1336

Sternberg E. D., Dolphin D., Porphyrin- based photosensitizers for use in photodynamic therapy, Tetrahedron, 54, 1998, 4151–4202

Konopka K. and Goslinski T., Photodynamic Therapy in Dentistry, J. Dent. Res., 86, 2007, 694-707

2. Additional medical applications (antibiotics, antiviral therapy etc.)


Maisch T., Bosl C., Szeimies R.-M., Lehn N. and Abels C., Photodynamic Effects of Novel XF Porphyrin Derivatieves on Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Cells, Antimicrob. Agents Chemother., 49, 2005, 1542-1552

Fuel cells

Bogdanoff P., Herrmann I., Hilgendorff M., Dorbandt I., Fiechter S. and Tributsch H., Probing Structural Effects of Pyrolysed CoTMPP-based Electrocatalysts
for Oxygen Reduction via New Preparation Strategies, J. New. Mat. Electrochem. Systems, 7, 2004, 85-92

Bang J. H., Han K., Skrabalak S. E., Kim H., Suslick K. S., Porous Carbon Supports Prepared by Ultrasonic Spray Pyrolysis for Direct Methanol Fuel Cell Electrodes, J. Phys. Chem. C, 111, 2007, 10959-10964

Sensors
1. NO-Sensors

Malinski, T.; Taha, Z., Nitric oxide release from a single cell measured in situ by a porphyrinic based microsensor., Nature 1992 , 358 , 676

Bedioui, F.; Trevin, S.; Albin, V.; Villegas, M.G.G.; Devynck, J., Design and characterization of chemically modified electrodes with iron(III) porphyrinic-based polymers: Study of their reactivity toward nitrites and nitric oxide in aqueous solution., Anal. Chim. Acta 1997 , 341 , 177

Diab, N.; Schuhmann, W., Electropolymerized manganese porphyrin/polypyrrole films as catalytic surfaces for the oxidation of nitric oxide., Electrochim. Acta 2001 , 47 , 265.

2. Oxygensensors



Soumya Mitra S. and Foster T. H., Photochemical Oxygen Consumption Sensitized by a Porphyrin Phosphorescent Probe in Two Model Systems, Biophys. J., 78, 2000, 2597–2605

Lee S.-K. and Okura I., Optical Sensor for Oxygen Using a Porphyrin-doped Sol–Gel Glass, Analyst, 122, 1997, 81–84

Sinaasappel M. and Ince C., Calibration of Pd-porphyrin phosphorescence for oxygen concentration measurements in vivo, J. Appl. Physiol., 81, 1996, 2297-2303

Mik E. G., van Leeuwen T. G., Raat N. J. and Ince C.,, Quantitative determination of localized tissue oxygen concentration in vivo by two-photon excitation phosphorescence lifetime measurements, J. Appl. Physiol., 97, 2004, 1962–1969

3. Artificial nose

Suslick K. S., Bailey D. P., Ingison C. K., Janzen M., Kosal M. A., McNamara III W. B., Rakow N. A.; Sen A., Weaver J. J., Wilson J. B., Zhang C. and Nakagaki S., Seeing Smells: Development Of An Optoelectronic Nose, Quimica Nova, 30, 2007, 677-681
Filippini D., Alimelli A., Di Natale C., Paolesse R., D’Amico A., Lundström I., Chemical sensing with familiar devices, Angewandte Chemie Int. Ed., 45, 2006, 3800-3803

4. (PSP, pressure sensitive colours)

Catalysts



Suslick K. S.and Cook B. R., Regioselective Epoxidations of Dienes with Manganese(III) Porphyrin Catalysts, J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun., 1987, 200-202

Water purification
Molecular electronics


Mark E. Thompson et al., Highly Efficient, Near-Infrared Electrophosphorescence from a Pt-Metalloporphyrin Complex, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 46, 2007, , 1109-1112