The quenching of excited singlet and triplet states of riboflavin, lumiflavin and lumichrome was investigated in methanol. The quenchers were aromatic electron donors and aliphatic amines. Bimolecular quenching rate constants were determined from static and dynamic fluorescence measurements. Triplet quenching was studied by laser flash photolysis. Transient absorption spectra showed the presence of semireduced flavins and lumichrome, and the radical cation of quenchers. The results confirm that the quenching rate constants for aliphatic donors are lower than those of aromatic donors of similar oxidation potential. Plots of the quenching rate constants vs. the free energy for the electron transfer reaction, DG , were fitted by the Rehm-Weller model of electron transfer quenching. The aliphatic quenchers needed a higher intrinsic barrier for the fitting that was ascribed to the internal reorganisation of the amines. For the aromatic donors the singlet quenching rate constants reach the diffusional limit at highly negative DG . However, for the triplet quenching the limiting value of the rate constants is lower than the plateau of the singlet quenching. This is explained in terms of the non-adiabaticity of the triplet quenching process.
CPNs were well incorporated into glioblastoma and macrophage cells with localization in lysosomes. SW480 cells were less efficient incorporating CPNs with localization in the plasma membrane. In all cell lines PDT treatment was efficient inducing oxidative stress that triggered apoptosis.
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