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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Recent Pat Antiinfect Drug Discov. 2010 Jun 1;5(2):124–151. doi: 10.2174/157489110791233522

Fig. 10. Chemical structures of photosensitizers used in antimicrobial applications.

Fig. 10

These molecules possess either constitutive cationic charges or basic amino groups. Toluidine blue O (TBO), cationic fullerene (BF6), cationic porphyrin (XF73), meso-mono-phenyl-tri(N-methyl-4-pyridyl)-porphyrin (Sylsens B), polyethylenimine chlorin(e6) conjugate (PEI-ce6), cationic phthalocyanine (RLP068), selenium benzo(A)phenoxazinium chloride (EtNBSe).

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