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• 128526-95-4 4-(Phenylazo)triphenylmethanol 

Relevant academic research and scientific papers

Optical Control of Mitosis with a Photoswitchable Eg5 Inhibitor

Eg5 is a kinesin motor protein that is responsible for bipolar spindle formation and plays a crucial role during mitosis. Loss of Eg5 function leads to the formation of monopolar spindles, followed by mitotic arrest, and subsequent cell death. Several cell-permeable small molecules have been reported to inhibit Eg5 and some have been evaluated as anticancer agents. We now describe the design, synthesis, and biological evaluation of photoswitchable variants with five different pharmacophores. Our lead compound Azo-EMD is a cell permeable azobenzene that inhibits Eg5 more potently in its light-induced cis form. This activity decreased the velocity of Eg5 in single-molecule assays, promoted formation of monopolar spindles, and led to mitotic arrest in a light dependent way.

Phenylazo-Substituted Triphenylmethylium Systems

Triphenylmethanols (or their ethers) bearing phenylazo groups react with trifluoroacetic acid to give deeply colored solutions of the tritylium ions 7(+) - 9(+), (RC6H4N=NC6H4)nC(+)(C6H5)3-n (R = H, Me, Cl, NO2, MeO, H2N, Me2N), whose long wavelengths VIS absorptions and lowfield 1H-NMR signals are consistent with the existence of through-conjugated ?-electron systems.After addition of trifluoromethanesulfonic acid significant hypsochromic shifts of the VIS bands as well as additional proton deshieldings in the 1H-NMR spectrum are observed, which are in accordance with the formation of proximally azo-protonated phenylazotritylium ions 7(+)*H(+), 8(+)*2H(+), and 9(+)*3H(+), (RC6H4N=N(+)H-C6H4)nC(+)(C6H5)3-n.Fully analogous acid-strength-dependent ionisation/protonation reactions result for the overall p-substituted ions 17(+), 18(+), (RC6H4N=NC6H4)C(+)(C6H4R')2 (R,R' = Me, MeO, Me2N), as well as for the azobistritylium system 10(2+), (C6H5)2C(+)C6H4N=NC6H4C(+)(C6H5)2, and its azoxy derivative 11(2+).The linearly extended bis- and trisazo systems 19(+), 22(+), MeC6H4N=N(C6H4N=N)1,2C6H4C(+)(C6H5)2 and the (phenylazo)styryl system 20(+), MeC6H4N=NC6H4CH=CHC6H4C(+)(C6H5)2 in trifluoroacetic acid do not show any significant color changes relativ to the corresponding monofunctional parent types.In trifluoromethanesulfonic acid, however, compounds 19(+), 22(+) exhibit the usual bathochromic shifts of the longest wavelenght VIS absorption accompanying the increasing protonation of the polyazo system.In the case of the tritylium ions containing azomethine bridges, 24(+), only for the methoxy derivative 24b(+) indications for the existence of the conjugatively extended tritylium system (MeOC6H4N=CHC6H4)C(+)(C6H5)2 are found.The amide derivatives 26(+)-29(+), on the other hand, presents no clues for the existence of through-conjugated systems of the kind ArC(OH)=NC6H4C(+)Ar2 and ArN=C(OH)C6H4C(+)Ar2, respectively.