Daria V. Berdnikova, Heiko Ihmels, Holger Schönherr, Marc Steuber and Daniel Wesner
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2015,13, 3766-3770
DOI:
10.1039/C5OB00295H,
Paper
The combination of (i) the light-harvesting nature and excited-state redox reactivity of a cationic DNA intercalator, (ii) a conjugated Ag+-binding crown ether, and (iii) the stabilizing effect of DNA on AgNPs in one integral ternary complex enables the mild photoinduced formation of Ag nanoparticles.