Chemists from St. Petersburg University has developed a new family of luminescent iridium complexes that, for the first time, realize a unique mechanism of photoactivated proton transfer. In the future, this discovery will potentially allow for the creation of a fundamentally new class of “smart” antitumor drugs that can be activated directly inside tumor cells and tracked in real time by the change in the color of their glow.
Chemists create iridium compounds for the synthesis of ‘smart’ antitumor drugs
