Publications from 2020

2025

A. Maine, E. Garrido, S. Salazar, M. Leal, C.P. Silva, J. Pávez, J. Escrig, G. Günther, X. Briones, “Thin films of poly(ionic liquids) containing L-Alanine and L-Serine amino acids for immobilization of Laccase"

ACS Applied Polymer Materials.

W. Querini-Sanguillén, J. Otero-González, M. García-Sánchez, D. Zúñiga-Núñez, G. Günther, M. L. Miranda, E. Castro-Pérez, C. Ramos, D. Fuentealba, and J. Robinson-Duggon, "Toluidine Blue O Demethylated Photoproducts as Type II Photosensitizers"

Photochemistry and Photobiology.

2024

Sandoval-Altamirano, C.; Pizarro, N., Cho, Y.H., Morales J., Berrios, E., Silva, C., Gunther, G., "β-carbonyl substitution on Dimethylaminophenalenones, halogen-free enhancement of singlet oxygen generation in protic media"

Dyes and Pigments: 235: 112585, 2025.

Maryan Armijo, Christian Silva, Pablo Barrias, Germán Gunther, Catalina Sandoval-Altamirano, "A new Rose Bengal glycopolymer: Photosensitization in two stages"

Spectrochimica Acta 327: 125391, 2025.

2023

Arianne Maine, Laura Tamayo, Ángel Leiva, Alex González, Hernán E. Ríos, Carlos Rojas-Romo, Paul Jara, Ingrid Araya-Durán, Fernando González-Nilo, Mehrdad Yazdani-Pedram, Paula Santana, Matías Leal, Nicolás González, Ximena Briones, Valeria Villalobos, and Marcela Urzúa, "Conformational Changes of Poly(Maleic Anhydride-alt-styrene) Modified with Amino Acids in an Aqueous Medium and Their Effect on Cytocompatibility and Hemolytic Response"

ACS Applied Bio Materials 6(12): 5333-5348, 2023

Franco Palominos, Pablo Mella, Kevin Guajardo, German Gunther, Andres Vega, Nancy Pizarro, "Photoinduced Behaviour of N,N-Bidentate Manganese(I) and Rhenium(I) Tricarbonyl Complexes for Singlet Oxygen Generation and CO Release"

Photochemical snd Photobiological Science, 23: 119-132, 2024

 P. Leighton, C. Silva, S. A. Sanchez, J. Morales, C. Sandoval-Altamirano, G. Gunther, “Exploring multivalent protein-glycosensitizer interaction with phenalenone derivatives in mixed micelles”

Journal of Molecular Liquids, 387: 122664, 2023

Susana A Sanchez, Joao Aguilar, Leonel Malacrida, German Gunther, Belén Torrado, Viviana Torres, Bruno F. Urbano, “Cells immersed in collagen matrices show a decrease in plasma membrane fluidity as the matrix stiffness increases”

Biochimica et Biohysica Acta, 1865(7): 184176, 2023

Catalina Sandoval-Altamirano, Eduardo Berrios, Javier Morales, Christian Silva, German Gunther, "Phenalenone Derivatives: The voyage from Photosensitizers to Push-Pull fluorescent molecules”

Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry, 439(1): 114587, 2023

2022

Maine, Arianne; Encinas, Maria Victoria; Pavez, Jorge; Urzúa, Marcela; Günther, Germán; Reyes, Ignacio; Briones, Ximena. "On the Preparation of Thin Films of Stearyl Methacrylate Directly Photo-polymerized at the Air–Water Interface"

Langmuir 38(38): 11658–11665, 2022

Oscar Ramírez, Matías Leal, Ximena Briones, Marcela Urzúa, Sebastián Bonardd, Cesar Saldías, Angel Leiva, "New Hybrid Nanocomposites with Catalytic Properties Obtained by In Situ Preparation of Gold Nanoparticles on Poly (Ionic Liquid)/Poly (4-Vinylpyridine) Nanofibers"

Polymers 14(18): 3782, 2022

P. De Bonfils, C. Sandoval-Altamirano, X. Moreau, P. Nun, A. Laurent, G. Gunther, V. Coeffard, "Synthesis and Photophysical Characterizations of Pyrroloquinolone Photosensitizers for Singlet Oxygen Production"

Photochemistry and Photobiology DOI: 10.1111/php.13681, 2022

N. Mariño-Ocampo, J. S. Reyes, G. Günther, B. Heyne , D Fuentealba, "Thiol-reacting toluidine blue derivatives: Synthesis, photophysical properties and covalent conjugation with human serum albumin"

Dyes and Pigments 201(1–2):110225, 2022

2021

A. Acosta, J. Antipán, M. Fernández, G. Prado, C. Sandoval-Altamirano, G. Günther, I. Gutiérrez-Urrutia, I. Poblete-Castro, A. Vega, N. Pizarro, “Photochemistry of P,N-Bidentate Rhenium(I) tricarbonyl Complexes: Reactive Species Generation and Potential Application for Antibacterial Photodynamic Therapy”

RSC Advances 11(51): 31959-31966, 2021

German Gunther, Leonel Malacrida, David M. Jameson, Enrico Gratton, Susana A. Sánchez, “LAURDAN since Weber: the quest for visualizing membrane heterogeneity”

Accounts of Chemical Research 54(4): 976-987, 2021 DOI:10.1021/acs.accounts.0c0068

2020

P. De Bonfils, E. Verron, C. Sandoval-Altamirano, P. Jaque, X. Moreau, G. Gunther, P. Nun, V. Coeffard, “An Unusual Oxidative Dealkylation Strategy towards Functionalized Phenalenones as Singlet Oxygen Photosensitizers and Photophysical Studies”

Journal of Organic Chemistry 85(16): 10603–10616, 2020, DOI:10.1021/acs.joc.0c01140

J. Robinson-Duggon,  N. Pizarro, G. Gunther, D. Zúñiga-Núñez, A. M. Edwards, A. Greer, D. Fuentealba, “Fatty Acid Conjugates of Toluidine Blue O as Amphiphilic Photosensitizers: Synthesis, Solubility, Photophysics and Photochemical Properties”

Photochemistry and Photobiology, DOI: 10.1111/php.13304

F. Arriagada, C. Ugarte, G. Günther, S. Nonell, J. Morales, “Carminic Acid Linked to Silica Nanoparticles as Pigment/Antioxidant Bifunctional Excipient for Pharmaceutical Emulsions”

Pharmaceutics 12(4): 376, 2020, DOI:10.3390/pharmaceutics12040376 

F. Arriagada, G. Günther, J. Morales, “Nanoantioxidant–Based Silica Particles as Flavonoid Carrier for Drug Delivery Applications”

Pharmaceutics 12(4): 302, 2020, DOI:10.3390/pharmaceutics12040302

V. Castro-Castillo, J. Gajardo, C. Sandoval-Altamirano, E. Gratton, S. Sanchez, L. Malacrida, G. Gunther, "CAPRYDAA, an anthracene dye analog to LAURDAN: a comparative study using cuvette and microscopy"

Journal of Materials Chemistry B 8: 88-99, 2020, DOI: 10.1039/C9TB01738K

Valdés, E., Cepeda-Plaza, M., Günther, G., Vega, A., Palacios, R., Gomez, M. L., Pizarro, N., “Linker Group Modulates Luminescent Properties in a Rhenium(I) Tricarbonyl Complex. How Can be Applied for Ratiometric Oxygen Sensing?”,

Dyes and Pigments 172: 107787, 2020, DOI:1016/j.dyepig.2019.107787