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Porphyrins in photodynamic therapy - a search for ideal photosensitizers.
- S. Pushpan, S. Venkatraman, +4 authors T. K. Chandrashekar
- Chemistry, Medicine
- Current medicinal chemistry. Anti-cancer agents
- 28 February 2002
The utility of light as a therapeutic agent can be traced back over thousands of years when it was used in Ancient Egypt, India and China to treat a variety of skin diseases like psoriasis, vitiligo,… Expand
In vitro demonstration of apoptosis mediated photodynamic activity and NIR nucleus imaging through a novel porphyrin.
- S. A. Karunakaran, P. Babu, +9 authors D. Ramaiah
- Chemistry, Medicine
- ACS chemical biology
- 18 January 2013
We synthesized a novel water-soluble porphyrin THPP and its metalated derivative Zn-THPP having excellent triplet excited state quantum yields and singlet oxygen generation efficiency. When compared… Expand
Meso-tetrakis(p-sulfonatophenyl)N-confused porphyrin tetrasodium salt: a potential sensitizer for photodynamic therapy.
- A. P. Thomas, P. S. Saneesh Babu, +5 authors M. Radhakrishna Pillai
- Chemistry, Medicine
- Journal of medicinal chemistry
- 4 June 2012
A water-soluble derivative of N-confused porphyrin (NCP) was synthesized, and the photodynamic therapeutic (PDT) application was investigated by photophysical and in vitro studies. High singlet… Expand
Core-modified expanded porphyrins with large third-order nonlinear optical response.
- H. Rath, J. Sankar, V. Prabhuraja, T. K. Chandrashekar, A. Nag, D. Goswami
- Chemistry, Medicine
- Journal of the American Chemical Society
- 24 August 2005
The third-order nonlinear optical response through measurement of two-photon absorption cross-sections (TPACS) for aromatic core-modified expanded porphyrin analogues by a femtosecond open aperture… Expand
Figure-eight aromatic core-modified octaphyrins with six meso links: syntheses and structural characterization.
- H. Rath, J. Sankar, V. Prabhuraja, T. K. Chandrashekar, B. S. Joshi, Raja Roy
- Chemistry, Medicine
- Chemical communications
- 23 June 2005
The synthesis and structural characterization of the first examples of aromatic core-modified figure-eight octaphyrins with six meso links and their formation with and without acid catalysts are… Expand
Short-chain basket handle porphyrins: synthesis and characterisation
- D. Reddy, T. K. Chandrashekar
- Chemistry
- 1992
Basket handle porphyrins containing short p- or m-phenylenedimethylenedioxy chains covalently linked at the ortho position of phenyl groups of 5,10,15,20-tetraphenylporphyrin have been synthesised.… Expand
Core-modified expanded porphyrins: new generation organic materials.
- T. K. Chandrashekar, S. Venkatraman
- Chemistry, Medicine
- Accounts of chemical research
- 11 July 2003
Even though the first expanded porphyrin was reported in the mid-1960s, the advances in its chemistry are more recent. New and powerful synthetic methods have facilitated the availability in… Expand
An ENDOR study of the tyrosyl free radical in ribonucleotide reductase from Escherichia coli
- C. Bender, M. Sahlin, +6 authors L. Petersson
- Chemistry
- 1 October 1989
Tyrosyl radicals have been identified as components of several proteins whose function is redox chemistry. Ribonucleotide reductase is representative of this class of enzymes as its B2 subunit… Expand
Structural diversity in expanded porphyrins.
- Rajneesh Misra, T. K. Chandrashekar
- Chemistry, Medicine
- Accounts of chemical research
- 19 February 2008
Inspired by the chemistry of porphyrins, in the last decade, a new research area where porphyrin analogues such as expanded, isomeric, and contracted porphyrins have been synthesized, and their… Expand
Smaragdyrins: emeralds of expanded porphyrin family.
- Yogita Pareek, M. Ravikanth, T. K. Chandrashekar
- Chemistry, Medicine
- Accounts of chemical research
- 31 August 2012
Porphyrins are tetrapyrrolic 18 π electron conjugated macrocycles with wide applications that range from materials to medicine. Expanded porphyrins, synthetic analogues of porphyrins that contain… Expand