We are delighted to share with you our latest collection of recently published articles focusing on Phthalocyanines, handpicked by Associate Editor Fabienne Dumoulin.
These brightly coloured molecules belong to the porphyrinoids family, as do haemoglobin and chlorophyll. Their optical, magnetic, electronic (amongst others!) properties can be tailored by playing with the substitution and/or metalation pattern, with quasi-infinite combinations, giving the opportunity to perform enthralling structure-properties or structure-activities relationship analyses.
With an appropriate design, these fascinating compounds can act as photosensitisers for photodynamic therapy, take place in sensor devices, harvest light, catalyse, electro-catalyse or photo-catalyse either oxidation or reduction reactions. Their inclusion in materials such as MOFs and COFs and more generally in nanoscience enlarge again the possibilities to produce high-performance compounds and materials, should it be for pure fundamental research or more applied technologies.
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Featured articles:
Impact of photosensitizer orientation on the distance dependent photocatalytic activity in zinc phthalocyanine–nanoporous gold hybrid systems
David Steinebrunner, Günter Schnurpfeil, Mathis Kohröde, Alexander Epp, Khaetthariya Klangnog, Jorge Adrian Tapia Burgos, Andre Wichmann, Dieter Wöhrle and Arne Wittstock
RSC Adv., 2020,10, 23203-23211. DOI: 10.1039/D0RA03891A
Elucidating π–π interaction-induced extension effect in sandwich phthalocyaninato compounds
Xin Chen, Dongdong Qi, Chao Liu, Hailong Wang, Zheng Xie, Tse-Wei Chen, Shen-Ming Chen, Tien-Wen Tseng and Jianzhuang Jiang
RSC Adv., 2020,10, 317-322. DOI: 10.1039/C9RA07847A
Metal phthalocyanine organic thin-film transistors: changes in electrical performance and stability in response to temperature and environment
Nicholas T. Boileau, Rosemary Cranston, Brendan Mirka, Owen A. Melville and Benoît H. Lessard
RSC Adv., 2019,9, 21478-21485. DOI: 10.1039/C9RA03648B
Meet the Editor
Associate Professor Dr. Fabienne Dumoulin first started university studying biology, graduated in biochemistry and then completed her PhD in organic chemistry in Lyon, France in 2002. After post doctoral studies in Pisa, Italy, she was a faculty member at Chemistry Department of Gebze Technical University from 2005 to 2019. She is now associate professor at Acıbadem Mehmet Ali Aydinler University in Istanbul,Turkey.
Her research focuses on the chemistry, properties and applications of phthalocyanines, mainly for photodynamic therapy. She has authored so far 82 research articles, three book chapters, and supervised many Master and PhD students. Fabienne has also been the recipient of several Young Scientist Awards: TUBA-GEBİP from the Turkish Academy of Sciences, BAGEP from the Bilim Akademisi and the Mustafa N Parlar Foundation of METU. She was elected officer of the executive committee of the European Society for Photobiology in 2015 and 2017, is an Associate Editor for RSC Advances and the Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines, and is a Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
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