PPS Issue 3 is now online and is a themed issue on photoremovable protecting groups: development and applications, see the full issue here. This themed issue presents research papers and perspectives on applications of photoremovable protecting groups that provide spatial and temporal control over the release of various chemicals and bioagents. Read Guest Editor Jacob Wirz’s Editorial which introduces the topic here.
The front cover represents an article by Andrei G. Kutateladze and co-workers from the University of Denver in the USA. In their study externally sensitized fragmentation in dithiane PPG-protected carbonyls is adopted for detection and amplification of binding events, which trigger massive self-amplified release of benzophenone from its masked state, simultaneously quenching the fluorescence. Read the full article for free here until 12th April!