Gold nanoparticle-based two-photon fluorescent nanoprobe for monitoring intracellular nitric oxide levels
Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 11, 3387 (2023)

Reduction-triggered Disassembly of Organic Cationic Nanorods Produces a Cysteine Protease Mimic
Chemistry, a European Journal, 29, e202203764 (2023)

Reduction-Responsive Cationic Vesicles from Bolaamphiphiles with Ionizable Amino Acid or Dipeptide Polar Heads
Langmuir, 39, 13841 (2023)

Phenol-based styrylpyrylium dyes for trace water detection via chromogenic and fluorogenic responses
Dyes and Pigments, 197, 109908 (2022)

Photodynamic inactivation of Staphylococcus aureus in the presence of aggregation-prone photosensitizers based on BODIPY used at submicromolar concentrations
Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology, B: Biology, 235, 112543 (2022)

Enhancement of photoactivity and cellular uptake of (Bu4N)2[Mo6I8(CH3COO)6] complex by loading on porous MCM-41 support. Photodynamic studies as an anticancer agent
Biomaterials Advances, 140, 213057 (2022)

Development of a Polymeric Film Entrapping Rose Bengal and Iodide Anion for the Light-Induced Generation and Release of Bactericidal Hydrogen Peroxide
International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 23, 10162 (2022)

Structure-performance relationships of four lysosomal markers used for the imaging of HT-29 cancer cells and a cellular model of lysosomal storage disease (Niemann-Pick C)
Dyes and Pigments, 201, 110236 (2022) 

A highly photostable and versatile two-photon fluorescent probe for the detection of a wide range of intracellular nitric oxide concentrations in macrophages and endothelial cells
Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology, B: Biology, 234 112512 (2022) 

Glutathione-responsive molecular nanoparticles from a dianionic bolaamphiphile and their use as carriers for targeted delivery
Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 608, 2009 (2022)

Broad-Spectrum Photo-Antimicrobial Polymers Based on Cationic Polystyrene and Rose Bengal
Frontiers in Medicine, 8, 641646 (2021)

Non-Polymeric Nanogels as Versatile Nanocarriers: Intracellular Transport of the Photosensitizers Rose Bengal and Hypericin for Photodynamic Therapy
ACS Applied Biomaterials, 4, 3658 (2021)

Photodynamic Inactivation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa by PHEMA Films Loaded with Rose Bengal: Potentiation Effect of Potassium Iodide
Polymers, 13, 2227 (2021)

Photoreversible formation of nanotubes in water from an amphiphilic azobenzene derivative
Chemical Communications, 57, 11545 (2021)

Detection of subcellular nitric oxide in mitochondria using a pyrylium probe: assays in cell cultures and peripheral blood
Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 9, 9885 (2021)

Fluorescent styrylpyrylium probes for the imaging of mitochondria in live cells
Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 19, 9043 (2021)

High Optical Performance of Cyan-Emissive CsPbBr3 Perovskite Quantum Dots Embedded in Molecular Organogels
Advanced Optical Materials, 9, 2001786 (2021)

Synthesis of new fluorescent pyrylium dyes and study of their interaction with N-protected amino acids
New Journal of Chemistry, 44, 9509 (2020)

Solid-state white-light emission from a pyrylium dye obtained in one synthetic step
Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 8, 14348 (2020)

A cost-effective combination of Rose Bengal and off-the-shelf cationic polystyrene for the photodynamic inactivation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Materials Science and Engineering, 117, 111302 (2020)

Photodynamic Inactivation of Staphylococcus aureus Biofilms Using a Hexanuclear Molybdenum Complex Embedded in Transparent polyHEMA Hydrogels
ACS Biomaterials Science and Engineering, 6, 6995 (2020) 

Adsorption of Rose Bengal on a self-assembled fibrillar network affords a thermally switchable oxygenation photocatalyst and a thermochromic soft material
Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology, A: Chemistry, 387, 112142 (2020)

Photobehavior of the antipsychotic drug cyamemazine in a supramolecular gel protective environment
Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology, B: Biology, 202, 111686 (2020)

A Dual Stimuli Responsive Supramolecular Gel Provides Insulin Hydrolysis Protection and Redox-Controlled Release of Actives
Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics, 1900419 (2020)

Photoactive Hexanuclear Molybdenum Nanoclusters Embedded in Molecular Organogels
Inorganic Chemistry, 58, 8900-8905 (2019)

Liposome-Enveloped Molecular Nanogels
Langmuir, 35, 13375−13381 (2019)

In between molecules and self-assembled fibrillarnetworks: highly stable nanogel particles from a low molecular weight hydrogelator
Soft Matter, 15, 3565-3572 (2019)

A spectroscopic study to assess the photogeneration of singlet oxygen by graphene oxide
Materials Letters, 251, 45–51 (2019)

Self-Assembly Controls Reactivity with Nitric Oxide: Implications for Fluorescence Sensing
ACS Omega, 3, 15538−15545 (2018)

Insights in the aggregation induced emission of 1,8-naphthalimide-based supramolecular hydrogels
Nanoscale, 10, 17060–17069 (2018)

Photocatalytic Activity of Mesoporous α-Fe2O3 Synthesized via Soft Chemistry and Hard Template Methods for Degradation of Azo Dye Orange II
Catalysis Letters, 148, 1289–1295 (2018)

Synthesis, spectroscopic studies and biological evaluation of acridine derivatives: the role of aggregation on the photodynamic efficiency
Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 28, 869–874 (2018)

Self-assembled nanofibrilar networks: boosting hydrogelation efficiency by replacement of a pyridine moiety by a quinoline one
ChemNanoMat, 4, 769 – 771 (2018)

Multimodal Light-Harvesting Soft Hybrid Materials: Assisted Energy Transfer upon Thermally Reversible Gelation
Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 121, 21154−21159 (2017)

Sizing Down a Supramolecular Gel into Micro- and Nanoparticles
Langmuir, 33, 10322−10328 (2017)

Superior performance of macroporous over gel type polystyrene as a support for the development of photo-bactericidal materials
Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 5, 6058-6064 (2017)

Improving photocatalytic oxygenation mediated by polymer supported photosensitizers using semiconductor quantum dots as ‘light antennas’
RSC Advances, 7, 35154–35158 (2017)

Styrylpyrylium Dyes as Solvent-Sensitive Molecules Displaying Dual Fluorescence
European Journal of Organic Chemistry, 4864–4870 (2017)

Novel fluorescent anthracene–bodipy dyads displaying sensitivity to pH and turn-on behaviour towards Cu(II) ions
Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 15, 3013-3024 (2017)

The interaction of amino acids with macrocyclic pH probes of pseudopeptidic nature
Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences, 16, 1320-1326 (2017)

Influence of polymer composition on the sensitivity towards nitrite and nitric oxide of colorimetric disposable test strips
Environmental Science and Pollution Research, 24, 3448–3455 (2017)

Thermally Regulated Reversible Formation of Vesicle-Like Assemblies by Hexaproline Amphiphiles
Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 121, 7443−7446 (2017)

Deamidation of pseudopeptidic molecular hydrogelators and its application to controlled release
Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 505, 1111–1117 (2017)

A photobleaching resistant polymer supported hexanuclear molybdenum iodide cluster for photocatalytic oxygenations and photodynamic inactivation of Staphylococcus aureus
Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 4, 5975-5979 (2016).

Chameleonic, Light Harvesting Photonic Gels Based on Orthogonal Molecular Fibrillization
Chemistry of Materials 28, 7964–7972 (2016)

Characterization of amine stabilized CdSe/ZnS core–shell quantum dots by using triarylpyrylium dyes
RSC Advances, 6, 56064-56068 (2016)

Synthesis of new fluorescent bichromophoric compounds as pH probes for intracellular measurements
Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 13, 7736-7749 (2015)         

Phenanthroline Heteroleptic Molybdenum Trinuclear Clusters with Luminescent Properties
European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, 1877-1885 (2015)

Turn-on fluorescent probes for nitric oxide based on the ortho-hydroxyamino structure showing no interference with dehydroascorbic acid
Chemical Communications, 50, 3579-3581 (2014)

Fluorescent macrocyclic probes with pendant functional groups as markers of acidic organelles within live cells
Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 12, 823-831 (2014).

Recognition of Free Tryptophan in Water by Synthetic Pseudopeptides: Fluorescence and Thermodynamic Studies
Chemistry – A European Journal, 20, 7465-7478 (2014)

Nitric Oxide Sensitive Fluorescent Polymeric Hydrogels showing Negligible Interference by Dehydroascorbic Acid
European Polymer Journal, 55, 108-113 (2014)

Fluorescent macrocyclic probes with pendant functional groups as markers of acidic organelles within live cells
Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry 12, 823-831 (2014)

Singlet Oxygen Generation by Photoactive Polymeric Microparticles with Enhanced Aqueous Compatibility
Environmental Sciences and Pollution Research, 21, 11884-11892 (2014)

A photoinduced electron transfer based nanoprobe as a marker of acidic organelles in mammalian cells
Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry, 405, 6197-6207 ( 2013)

Dithiolene Dimetallic Molybdenum (V) Complexes Displaying Intraligand Charge Transfer (ILCT) Emission
Dalton Transactions, 42, 12947-12955 (2013).

Organogel-quantum dots hybrid materials displaying fluorescence sensitivity towards nitric oxide
Soft Matter, 8, 4373-4381 (2012)

Photoluminescence enhancement of CdSe quantum dots: a case of organogel-nanoparticle symbiosis
Journal of the American Chemical Society, 134, 20554-20563 (2012)

Localized Intracellular pH Measurement Using a Ratiometric Photoinduced Electron-Transfer-Based Nanosensor
Angewandte Chemie, International Edition, 51, 9657-9661 (2012)

Triplet Excited State Behavior of Naphthalene-Based Pseudopeptides in the Presence of Energy Donors
Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 116, 9957-9962 (2012)

Fluorescent Acridine-Based Receptors for H2PO4-
Journal of Organic Chemistry, 77, 490-500 (2012)

Quantum dot -polymethacrylate composites as supported fluorescent sensors for gaseous nitric oxide
Inorganica Chimica Acta, 381, 212  (2012)

Photo luminiscence of CdSe/ZnS core-shell quantum dots stabilized in water with a pseudopeptidic gemini surfactant
Nanoscale, 3, 3613-3615 (2011)

Fluorescence of 1,2-diaminoanthraquinone and its nitric oxide reaction product within living cells
ChemBioChem, 12, 2471-2477 (2011)

Synthesis of a new hydrophilic poly(ethylene glycol)-ionic liquid and its application in peptide synthesis
Chemical Communications  46, 8842-8844 (2010)

Synthesis and evaluation of pseudopeptidic fluorescence pH probes for acidic cellular organelles: in vivo monitoring of bacterial phagocytosis by multiparametric flow cytometry
European Journal of Organic Chemistry,  5967–5979 (2010)

New polymer-supported photocatalyst with improved compatibility with polar solvents. Synthetic application using solar light as energy source
Catalysis Communications, 11, 1081-1084 (2010)

Ratiometric Fluorescence Sensing of Phenylalanine Derivatives by Synthetic Macrocyclic Receptors
Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology, A:Chemistry 209, 61-67 (2010)

A simple peptidomimetic that self-associates on the solid state to form a nanoporous architecture containing chiral π channels
Crystal Engineering Communications, 12, 1722-1725, (2010)

Syntetic application of photoactive porous monolithic polymers
Tetrahedron Letters, 51, 3360-63  (2010)

Singlet Oxygen Generation using a Porous Monolithic Polymer supported Photosensitizer: Application to the photodynamic destruction of melanoma cells
Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences, 8, 37-44 (2009)

Improved polyHEMA-DAQ films for the optical analysis of nitrite
European Polymer Journal 45, 1516-1523 (2009)

Chiral Synthetic Pseudopeptidic Derivatives as Enantioselective Triplet Excited State Quenchers
Tetrahedron Letters  50, 4859-4862 (2009)  

Fluorescence and Mass Spectrometry Studies of the Interaction between Naproxen and Synthetic pseudopeptidic Models in Organic Media
Tetrahedron  65, 7801-7808 (2009)

Unraveling the Molecular Recognition of Amino Acid Derivatives by a Pseudopeptidic Macrocycle: ESI-MS, NMR, Fluorescence and Modeling Studies for the Proposal of a Supramolecular Complex Structure
Journal of Organic Chemistry 74, 6130-6142 (2009)

Spectroscopic studies of 1,2-diaminoanthraquinone (DAQ) as fluorescent probe for the imaging of nitric oxide in living cells
Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences, 7, 126-130 (2008)

Time resolved fluorescence of naproxen in organogel medium
Chemical Physics Letters , 460, 503-506 (2008)

Use of Fluorescence Spectroscopy To Study Polymeric Materials with Porous Structure Based on Imprinting by Self-Assembled Fibrillar Networks
Langmuir, 24, 9795-9803 (2008)

Acridine yellow as solar photocatalyst for the elimination of ferulic acid as model pollutant
Applied Catalysis, B: Environmental, 73, 220-226 (2007)

Polymer supported ionic liquid phases (SILPs) versus ionic liquids (ILs): How much do they look alike
Chemical Communications, 3086-3088 (2007)

Novel peptidomimetic macrocycles showing exciplex fluorescence
Tetrahedron, 63, 9493-9501 (2007)

A turn-on fluorescent indicator for citrate with micromolar sensitivity
Dalton Transactions,  4027-4033 (2007)

Molecular rotors as simple models to study amide NH - aromatic interactions and their role in the folding of peptide-like structures
Journal of Organic Chemistry, 72, 7947-7956  (2007)

Fluorescence quenching in an organogel as a reaction medium
Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology, A: Chemistry,  178, 57-61  (2006)

Cross-linked poly (2-hydroxyethylmethacrylate) films doped with 1,2-diaminoanthraquinone (DAQ) as efficient materials for the colorimetric sensing of nitric oxide and nitrite anion
Tetrahedron Letters, 47, 1787-1791 (2006)

The photochemical rearrangement of aromatic ethers. A review of the Photo-Claisen reaction
Journal of Photochemistry and  Photobiology, C: Photochemistry Reviews, 6, 123-138 (2005)

Water/humidity, and ammonia sensor, based on a polymer hydrogel matrix containing a fluorescent flavylium compound
Journal of Materials Chemistry, 15, 2840-2847 (2005)

Write-Read-Erase Molecular Switching System Trapped in a Polymer Hydrogel Matrix
Advanced Functional Materials, 15, 541-545 (2005)

Synthetic macrocyclic peptidomimetics as tunable pH sensors for the fluorescence imaging of acidic organelles in live cells
Angewandte Chemie, International Edition. 44, 6504-6508 (2005)

Photophysical Study of a Cyclophane Displaying Intramolecular Exciplex Emission
Chemical Physics, 302, 287-294 (2004)

Synthesis and study of a cyclophane displaying dual fluorescence emission: a novel ratiometric sensor for carboxylic acids in organic medium
Tetrahedron Letters, 45, 1659-1662 (2004)

Self-assembly of small peptidomimetic cyclophanes
Chemistry, a European Journal, 10, 3879-3890 (2004)

A sensitive colorimetric method for the study of polystyrene Merrifield resins and chloromethylated macroporous monolithic polymers
Journal of Combinatorial Chemistry, 6, 859-861 (2004)

Efficient macrocyclization of U-turn preorganized peptidomimetics: the role of intramolecular H-bond and solvophobic effects
Journal of the American Chemical Society, 125, 6677-6686 (2003)

Nickel complexes from alpha-amino amides as efficient catalysts for the enantioselective Et2Zn addition to benzaldehyde
Tetrahedron Letters, 44, 6891-6894 (2003)

New efficient procedure for the use of diethoxyphosphoryl as a protecting group in the synthesis of polyazamacrocycles. Preparation of polyazacyclophanes derived from resorcinol
Journal of Organic Chemistry, 68, 10169-10171 (2003)

Involvement of triplet excited states and olefin radical cations in electron-transfer cycloreversion of four-membered ring compounds photosensitized by (thia)pyrylium salts
Journal of Organic Chemistry, 67, 4138-4142 (2002)

Pyrylium salt-photesensitized degradation of phenolic contaminants present in olive oil wastewaters with solar light. Part II. Benzoic acid derivatives
Applied Catalysis B: Environmental,  30, 437-444 (2001)

Steady-state and time-resolved studies on oxetane cycloreversion using (thia)pyrylium salts as electron transfer photosensitizers
Organic Letters, 3, 1965-1967 (2001)

Pyrylium salt-photosensitized degradation of phenolic contaminants derived from cinnamic acid with solar light. Correlation of the observed reactivities with fluorescence quenching
Applied Catalysis B: Environmental,  28, 127-133 (2000)

Excited state interactions in phenol/olefin bichromophoric compounds: direct detection of an intramolecular exciplex
Chemical Communications, 1747-1748 (2000)

Pyrylium and thiopyrylium salts as electron transfer photosensitizers for the [2π +2π] cyclodimerization of poly(vinyl cinnamate) in solution
Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology, A: Chemistry, 113, 155-161 (1998)

Coupling of phenoxy and alkyl radicals derived from the photolysis of phenol/ketone pairs: an intermolecular approach to the photo-Claisen rearrangement
Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology, A: Chemistry, 117, 17-19 (1998)

Photochemical ortho-acylation of phenols with 1,1,1-trichloroethane
Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology, A: Chemistry, 97, 151-153 (1996)

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Photo-Fries Reaction and Related Processes

Arene Chemistry: Reaction Mechanisms and Methods for Aromatic Compounds

Ed. J. Mortier, pp 889-911. John Wiley & Sons, 2016.

Receptors for Zwitterionic Species

Supramolecular Chemistry: From Molecules to Nanomaterials.  Eds. P.A. Gale, J. W. Steed, pp 1259-1280. Wiley, 2012.

Photo-Fries reaction and related proceses

CRC Handbook of Organic Photochemistry and Photobiology, 2nd ed., Eds. W. M. Horspool & F. Lenci, pp.42/1-42/11, CRC Press, 2004.

The photo-Fries rearrangement

Molecular and Supramolecular Photochemistry, vol.9: Photochemistry of Organic Molecules in Isotropic and Anisotropic Media,
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