ChemPhotoChemPub Date : 2025-05-12DOI: 10.1002/cptc.202580501
Rai Kobayashi, Prof. Dr. Yasuyuki Tsuboi, Dr. Ken-ichi Yuyama
{"title":"Front Cover: Formation of a Hemispherical Droplet in a Temperature Responsive Ionic Liquid by Optical Tweezers (ChemPhotoChem 5/2025)","authors":"Rai Kobayashi, Prof. Dr. Yasuyuki Tsuboi, Dr. Ken-ichi Yuyama","doi":"10.1002/cptc.202580501","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/cptc.202580501","url":null,"abstract":"<p><b>The Front Cover</b> illustrates a microdroplet formed in a temperature responsive ionic liquid aqueous solution under the laser irradiation. Upon focusing a near-infrared laser beam onto the glass/solution interface, a single liquid droplet is formed due to optical trapping and a photothermal effect. The resultant droplet deposits on the substrate, exhibiting a hemispherical shape. The hemispherical droplet can extract and condense molecules due to high ionic liquid concentration, which is confirmed by Raman and fluorescence spectroscopic analysis. The current approach offers a new methodology with which to collect and perform microanalysis on tiny amounts of substances. More information can be found in the Research Article by Ken-ichi Yuyama and co-workers (DOI: 10.1002/cptc.202400394).\u0000 <figure>\u0000 <div><picture>\u0000 <source></source></picture><p></p>\u0000 </div>\u0000 </figure>\u0000 </p>","PeriodicalId":10108,"journal":{"name":"ChemPhotoChem","volume":"9 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/cptc.202580501","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143939122","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ChemPhotoChemPub Date : 2025-04-08DOI: 10.1002/cptc.202580401
{"title":"Front Cover: (ChemPhotoChem 4/2025)","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/cptc.202580401","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/cptc.202580401","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Cover image provided courtesy of Tomohiro Higashi and co-workers from University of Miyazaki, Japan.\u0000 <figure>\u0000 <div><picture>\u0000 <source></source></picture><p></p>\u0000 </div>\u0000 </figure>\u0000 </p>","PeriodicalId":10108,"journal":{"name":"ChemPhotoChem","volume":"9 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/cptc.202580401","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143801697","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ChemPhotoChemPub Date : 2025-03-11DOI: 10.1002/cptc.202580301
{"title":"Front Cover: (ChemPhotoChem 3/2025)","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/cptc.202580301","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/cptc.202580301","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Cover image provided courtesy of Tomohiro Higashi and co-workers from University of Miyazaki, Japan.\u0000 <figure>\u0000 <div><picture>\u0000 <source></source></picture><p></p>\u0000 </div>\u0000 </figure>\u0000 </p>","PeriodicalId":10108,"journal":{"name":"ChemPhotoChem","volume":"9 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/cptc.202580301","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143595213","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ChemPhotoChemPub Date : 2025-02-10DOI: 10.1002/cptc.202580201
Jing Zhang, Bin Guo, Zhuo-Lin Tong, David J. Young, Hong-Xi Li
{"title":"Front Cover: Covalent Organic Framework (COF) Based Catalysts for Photocatalytic Cross-Dehydrogenative Coupling Reactions (ChemPhotoChem 2/2025)","authors":"Jing Zhang, Bin Guo, Zhuo-Lin Tong, David J. Young, Hong-Xi Li","doi":"10.1002/cptc.202580201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/cptc.202580201","url":null,"abstract":"<p><b>The Front Cover</b> illustrates the micro-environments associated with photocatalytic cross-dehydrogenative coupling (CDC) reactions, wherein covalent organic frameworks (COFs) function as heterogeneous catalysts. COFs exhibit favorable photocatalytic activity in diverse chemical transformations, owing to their remarkable high crystallinity, excellent stability, and convenient recyclability. The CDC reactions represent an efficient and clean methodology for the formation of C-Nu (Nu = nucleophilic reagent) bonds through activation of C-H and Nu-H bonds, respectively. As expected, the robust COFs offer a highly versatile platform for heterogeneous photocatalytic CDC reactions. More information can be found in the Concept article by Bin Guo, David J. Young, Hong-Xi Li, and co-workers (DOI: 10.1002/cptc.202400274).\u0000 <figure>\u0000 <div><picture>\u0000 <source></source></picture><p></p>\u0000 </div>\u0000 </figure>\u0000 </p>","PeriodicalId":10108,"journal":{"name":"ChemPhotoChem","volume":"9 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/cptc.202580201","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143380292","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ChemPhotoChemPub Date : 2025-02-09DOI: 10.1002/cptc.202400394
Rai Kobayashi, Prof. Dr. Yasuyuki Tsuboi, Dr. Ken-ichi Yuyama
{"title":"Formation of a Hemispherical Droplet in a Temperature Responsive Ionic Liquid by Optical Tweezers","authors":"Rai Kobayashi, Prof. Dr. Yasuyuki Tsuboi, Dr. Ken-ichi Yuyama","doi":"10.1002/cptc.202400394","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/cptc.202400394","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Phase separation is related to a variety of chemical and biological processes. It proceeds stochastically in solutions, such that controlling it is a challenging issue. Here, we demonstrate local liquid-liquid phase separation of a temperature-responsive ionic liquid (IL) solution by utilizing a near-infrared laser beam. Upon focusing the laser beam onto the glass/solution interface, a single liquid droplet is formed due to optical trapping and a photothermal effect. The resultant droplet deposits on to the glass substrate, exhibiting a hemispherical shape. Under further laser irradiation, the droplet grows to a large size and increases in ionic liquid concentration, which is confirmed by Raman and fluorescence spectroscopic analysis. We observe that the droplet formation strongly depends on the surface properties of a glass substrate. We discuss the formation dynamics by considering optical and thermal potentials in addition to the interaction between the Ionic liquid and the substrate.</p>","PeriodicalId":10108,"journal":{"name":"ChemPhotoChem","volume":"9 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/cptc.202400394","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143938774","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ChemPhotoChemPub Date : 2025-02-03DOI: 10.1002/cptc.202400398
Marco Kapitzke, Dr. Samuel Palato, Amar Raj, Dr. Tatu Kumpulainen, Prof. Dr. Julia Stähler
{"title":"Enhancing Spectral Coverage, Efficiency, and Photometric Accuracy in Ultrafast Fluorescence Upconversion Spectroscopy","authors":"Marco Kapitzke, Dr. Samuel Palato, Amar Raj, Dr. Tatu Kumpulainen, Prof. Dr. Julia Stähler","doi":"10.1002/cptc.202400398","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/cptc.202400398","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Time-resolved fluorescence techniques are essential for studying the excited-state dynamics of molecules and materials, as well as their interactions with the surrounding media. Fluorescence upconversion provides femtosecond time resolution, but its limited spectral coverage often restricts its application. Broadband variants of fluorescence upconversion spectroscopy (FLUPS) offer improved spectral coverage but require balancing spectral bandwidth against signal strength. In this paper, we introduce a three-angle method (3-AM) for FLUPS designed to overcome these limitations. This method enhances spectral coverage, photometric accuracy, and signal-to-noise ratio by recording and averaging spectrally resolved upconversion signals at three distinct crystal angles. Unlike other techniques that rely on spectral reconstruction or continuous crystal rotation during acquisition, the 3-AM relies on fixed crystal positions, allowing for robust post-acquisition corrections. We validate the performance and reproducibility of the 3-AM by comparing it with the conventional fixed-angle approach, as well as through blind testing in two independent laboratories. Despite variations in experimental configuration, the 3-AM consistently produces reproducible spectral line shapes across the two setups. The enhanced performance and reliability demonstrate its practicality for laboratories with broadband FLUPS capabilities. Thus, the 3-AM is a valuable tool for investigating ultrafast radiative processes in previously inaccessible molecular and material systems.</p>","PeriodicalId":10108,"journal":{"name":"ChemPhotoChem","volume":"9 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/cptc.202400398","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143938804","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ChemPhotoChemPub Date : 2025-01-28DOI: 10.1002/cptc.202400406
Victor Carré, Jean-Marc Vincent
{"title":"Self-Assembly of the Co-Catalysts of a Dual Photoredox/Hydrogen Atom Transfer Catalytic Process: Curiosity or Opportunity?","authors":"Victor Carré, Jean-Marc Vincent","doi":"10.1002/cptc.202400406","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/cptc.202400406","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Dual photoredox/Hydrogen atom transfer (HAT) catalytic processes are an emerging class of redox neutral catalytic processes which allow the functionalization of inert C(sp<sup>3</sup>)−H bonds. A key step of such processes is a single electron transfer (SET) between the photoredox catalyst (PC) excited state and the HAT catalyst, which is typically a chloride or a bromide ion. Until recently, the SET has only been considered as an intermolecular process. Considering recent works dealing with the photooxidation of halides into halogen atoms occurring within Ru-based PC ⋅ halides complexes, as well as recent results from our group describing a prototypical example of an organic PC ⋅ chloride complex applied to the photoalkylation of C(sp<sup>3</sup>)−H bonds, this concept article aims at discussing the potential benefits and drawbacks of self-assembling the co-catalysts employed in dual photoredox/HAT catalytic processes.</p>","PeriodicalId":10108,"journal":{"name":"ChemPhotoChem","volume":"9 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/cptc.202400406","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143939591","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ChemPhotoChemPub Date : 2025-01-27DOI: 10.1002/cptc.202400412
Mohammad Tavakkoli Yaraki, Aarti, Muhammad A. Zenaidee, Dechao Chen, Chao Shen, Qin Li, Koushik Venkatesan, Yuling Wang
{"title":"Emissive Bovine Serum Albumin-Templated Osmium Nanoclusters: Synthesis and Optical Characterization","authors":"Mohammad Tavakkoli Yaraki, Aarti, Muhammad A. Zenaidee, Dechao Chen, Chao Shen, Qin Li, Koushik Venkatesan, Yuling Wang","doi":"10.1002/cptc.202400412","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/cptc.202400412","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Synthesis of new nanomaterials with unique optical properties is of great importance in different fields such as energy, material science, and biomedicine. Here, for the first time, we report the synthesis of the emissive osmium nanoclusters (OsNCs) using bovine serum albumin (BSA) as template and sodium borohydride as strong reducing agent. The as-synthesized emissive OsNCs had only 31 atoms, with deep-blue color emission with an emission maximum at 415 nm and a photoluminescence quantum yield (PLQY) of 2.5 %. The fluorescence emission of OsNCs could be attributed to the smaller number of atoms (31) in the as-synthesized OsNCs in this work. The optical characterization of the emissive OsNCs revealed that the fluorescence intensity was more sensitive to pH than with temperature of the solution. When pH was increased from 1–12, there was 6-fold increase in the emission intensity. We believe that the presented synthesis route as well as the results of this work could open new avenues to further investigate the OsNCs as new emissive nanomaterials and their potential applications in biomedical and energy fields.</p>","PeriodicalId":10108,"journal":{"name":"ChemPhotoChem","volume":"9 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143939580","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ChemPhotoChemPub Date : 2025-01-27DOI: 10.1002/cptc.202400407
Dr. Camilla Russo, Carmine Volpe, Dr. Mariateresa Giustiniano
{"title":"The Multiple Facets of Oxalate Dianion in Photochemistry","authors":"Dr. Camilla Russo, Carmine Volpe, Dr. Mariateresa Giustiniano","doi":"10.1002/cptc.202400407","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/cptc.202400407","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Oxalate salts are cheap and available reagents used in organic photochemistry as C1-synthons, single-electron transfer (SET) reductants, and <i>hole</i> scavengers. Relying on these multiple roles, a critical comparison of recent applications provides a roadmap to the diverse reductive functionalizations, highlighting the unmet challenges and the future developments.</p>","PeriodicalId":10108,"journal":{"name":"ChemPhotoChem","volume":"9 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/cptc.202400407","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143939578","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ChemPhotoChemPub Date : 2025-01-23DOI: 10.1002/cptc.202400351
Fangshu Xing, Jingwen Bai, Minghui Zhang, Yuyin Mao, Prof. Jian Liu
{"title":"Recent Trends in Bioinspired Photocatalysis and Photoenzymatic Catalysis for CO2 Reduction to Formic Acid","authors":"Fangshu Xing, Jingwen Bai, Minghui Zhang, Yuyin Mao, Prof. Jian Liu","doi":"10.1002/cptc.202400351","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/cptc.202400351","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The conversion of CO<sub>2</sub> into fuels and chemical feedstocks represents a sustainable pathway to develop carbon-neutral economy. Typically, among the accessible C1 commodities, formic acid has been a critical liquid product of CO<sub>2</sub> reduction as an essential chemical intermediate or hydrogen storage medium. However, the activity and selectivity regulation of CO<sub>2</sub>-to-HCOOH are still far from the scale implementation requirement due to both thermodynamic and kinetic challenges. Billions of years of evolution have allowed natural CO<sub>2</sub> reductases to achieve CO<sub>2</sub> selective utilization by their unique active sites surrounded by elaborate protein scaffolds, confined pockets for reaction intermediates, long-range electron and proton delivery chains, and hydrophobic CO<sub>2</sub> transfer channels. Consequently, learning from formate dehydrogenase (FDH) may inspire novel design in artificial photosynthesis, including the reactive center, multilevel coordination microenvironments, substrate channel, and synergistic effect. Herein, recent works about biomimetic photocatalysis and photoenzymatic catalysis of CO<sub>2</sub> valorization to HCOOH are summarized, which is hoped to lift the application of bioinspiration in highly selective CO<sub>2</sub> reduction systems.</p>","PeriodicalId":10108,"journal":{"name":"ChemPhotoChem","volume":"9 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143939641","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}