A highly water-soluble C60-NVP copolymer: a potential material for photodynamic therapy.
Water-soluble C60 polymers, which have the highest solubility of fullerene reported to date (7.8 mM of C60 in water), were prepared via copolymerization, and showed significant visible light-induced O2*- generation and DNA cleavage, indicating the potential of these water-soluble fullerene derivatives as agents for photodynamic therapy.
Iwamoto
Yuko
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Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9510, USA.
Yamakoshi
Yoko
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