Anaddition to our growing portfolio of usefullyluminescent boranes from the working groupInteractions of Inorganic Clusters Cages andContainers with Light within the AV 21 StrategyCzech Academy of Sciences Iodination of laserborane anti B 18 H 22 gives strongly phosphorescentderivatives, B 18 H 21 I and B 18 H 20 I 2 that are capable ofhigh quantum yield singlet oxygen production withthe option of two photon excitation at wavelengthswhich fall within the biological therapeutic window,making the pair of compounds promising O 21 Δ gphoto sensitizers
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