Congratulations to Anna for her paper in Chem. Sci.!
Catch-and-release process © 2026 EPFL/Anna Poryvai
We are pleased to announce that the work of Anna Poryvai entitled "Light-driven radical catch-and-release with BODIPY photocages" is now published in Chemical Science and is part of the 2026 Chemical Science HOT Article Collection! This study was developed in collaboration with the group of Tomas Slanina at the Czech Academy of Sciences.
In this paper, Anna demonstrated that green-light-activatable BODIPY photocages can undergo highly controllable reversible homolytic bond cleavage, therefore establishing a radical catch-and-release process. This reactivity was exploited for living reversible addition–fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) and free radical (FR) chain polymerizations of isobornylacrylate.
The work of Anna was funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (grant no. TMPFP2_217233).