A red-shifted two-photon-only caging group for three-dimensional photorelease† †Electronic supplementary information (ESI) available. See DOI: 10.1039/c7sc05182d

With a new photolabile protecting group – exclusively cleavable by two-photon-excitation – complex light scenarios for three-dimensional uncaging are possible.

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