About the Authors

Francesco Caruso

caruso@vassar.edu (FC); rossi@vassar.edu (MR)

Affiliation Istituto di Chimica Biomolecolare, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, University of Rome, Istituto Chimico, Rome, Italy

Leonora Mendoza

Affiliation Facultad de Química y Biología, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Santiago, Chile

Paulo Castro

Affiliation Facultad de Química y Biología, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Santiago, Chile

Milena Cotoras

Affiliation Facultad de Química y Biología, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Santiago, Chile

Maria Aguirre

Affiliation Facultad de Química y Biología, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Santiago, Chile

Betty Matsuhiro

Affiliation Facultad de Química y Biología, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Santiago, Chile

Mauricio Isaacs

Affiliation Facultad de Ciencias, Departamento de Química, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile

Miriam Rossi

caruso@vassar.edu (FC); rossi@vassar.edu (MR)

Affiliation Vassar College, Department of Chemistry, Poughkeepsie, New York, United States of America

Angela Viglianti

Affiliation University of Rome, Istituto Chimico, Rome, Italy

Roberto Antonioletti

Affiliation Istituto di Chimica Biomolecolare, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, University of Rome, Istituto Chimico, Rome, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: FC LM MR RA. Performed the experiments: FC LM PC MC AV RA. Analyzed the data: FC LM MC MA BM MI MR. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: FC LM MC AV RA. Wrote the paper: FC LM MC MR RA.