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  • Exclusive and Switchable Su...
    Zhu, Wenping; Ding, Zhen; Guo, Shaoxun; Guo, Wu‐Jie; Yan, Shirong; Liu, Bin; Li, Hui; Liu, Zhen; Tang, Ben Zhong; Peng, Hui‐Qing

    Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany), 06/2024, Letnik: 20, Številka: 24
    Journal Article

    Type‐I photosensitizers (PSs) can generate free radical anions with a broad diffusion range and powerful damage effect, rendering them highly desirable in various areas. However, it still remains a recognized challenge to develop pure Type‐I PSs due to the inefficiency in producing oxygen radical anions through the collision of PSs with nearby substrates. In addition, regulating the generation of oxygen radical anions is also of great importance toward the control of photosensitizer (PS) activities on demand. Herein, a piperazine‐based cationic Type‐I PS (PPE‐DPI) that exhibits efficient intersystem crossing and subsequently captures oxygen molecules through binding O2 to the lone pair of nitrogen in piperazine is reported. The close spatial vicinity between O2 and PPE‐DPI strongly promotes the electron transfer reaction, ensuring the exclusive superoxide radical (O2•−) generation via Type‐I process. Particularly, PPE‐DPI with cationic pyridine groups is able to associate with cucurbit7uril (CB7) through host‐guest interactions. Thus, supramolecular assembly and disassembly are easily utilized to realize switchable O2•− generation. This switchable Type‐I PS is successfully employed in photodynamic antibacterial control. Switchable Type‐I photosensitizer generated superoxide radical exclusively is constructed based on O2‐capture‐based electron transfer and supramolecular assembly for photodynamic antibacterial control.