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A spirocyclic BODIPY photosensitizer with pH-triggered triplet-state activation for tumor-selective photodynamic
Luying Guo1, Xing Guo1, Yiran Liu1
1Key Laboratory of Functional Molecular Solids of Ministry of Education, Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Biomedical Materials and Chemical Measurement, School of Chemistry and Materials Science, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, 241002, China. guoxing@ahnu.edu.cn.
Abstract:
Conventional PDT photosensitizers generally suffer from inherent poor tumor selectivity. We herein develop a novel spirocyclic BODIPY-based photosensitizer (BDP-I) to exploit the weakly acidic tumor microenvironment for targeted selective activation. It enables efficient pH-triggered triplet-state ROS restoration and prominent tumor-selective phototoxicity, providing a promising molecular scaffold for precise tumor-acidity-targeted PDT.

