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Monocyclometalated (C^N) Gold(III) Metallacycles: Tunable Emission and Singlet Oxygen (1 O2 ) Generation Properties
Robert Malmberg1, Dominik Suter1,2, Olivier Blacque2
1Department of Molecular Sciences, MQ Photonics Research Centre and MQ Sustainable Energy Research Centre, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, 2109, Australia.
Abstract:
Invited for the cover of this issue are Koushik Venkatesan and co-workers at Macquarie University and the University of Zurich. The image depicts the conversion of 3 O2 to 1 O2 upon photoexcitation by new monocyclometalated gold(III) metallacycles. Read the full text of the article at 10.1002/chem.202102331.
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