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Direct \({\text{O}}_{2} ({\text{X}}^{3}\Sigma _{\text{g}}^{ - }) \to {\text{O}}_{2} ({\text{b}}^{1} \Sigma_{\text{g}}^{ + } )\) Excitation

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Over the years, singlet oxygen has traditionally (and often with great success) been produced in a photosensitized process (see Chap. 1). The very fact that the singlet oxygen precursor is an excited electronic state of a molecule allows for a great deal of control over when and where singlet oxygen is formed. This is particularly relevant if one wants to study biological systems where focused lasers and microscopes may be used to, for example, illuminate and perturb a specific sensitizer-incubated organelle of a cell.

Parts of this chapter have been adapted with permission from Bregnhøj, M., Blazquez-Castro, A., Westberg, M., Breitenbach, T. & Ogilby, P. R. Direct 765 nm optical excitation of molecular oxygen in solution and in single mammalian cells. J. Phys. Chem. B 119, 5422–5429 (2015), Bregnhøj, M., Krægpøth, M. V., Sørensen, R. J., Westberg, M. & Ogilby, P. R. Solvent and Heavy-Atom Effects on the \({\text{O}}_{2} ({\text{X}}^{3} \Sigma_{\text{g}}^{ - } ) \to {\text{O}}_{2} ({\text{b}}^{1} \Sigma_{\text{g}}^{ + } )\) Absorption Transition. J. Phys. Chem. A 120, 8285–8296 (2016), and Westberg, M. et al. Control of singlet oxygen production in experiments performed on single mammalian cells. J. Photochem. Photobiol. A 321, 297–308 (2016).

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Bregnhøj, M. (2019). Direct \({\text{O}}_{2} ({\text{X}}^{3}\Sigma _{\text{g}}^{ - }) \to {\text{O}}_{2} ({\text{b}}^{1} \Sigma_{\text{g}}^{ + } )\) Excitation . In: The Electronic Transitions of Molecular Oxygen. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03183-1_3

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