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Upstream product

• 186581-53-3 diazomethane 
• 6453-67-4 methyl pyropheophorbide a 
• 10209-51-5 3-devinyl-3-acetyl-13⁽²⁾-demethoxycarbonylpheophorbide a methyl ester 
• 25145-41-9 pyrophaeophorbide b methyl ester 
• 917-64-6 methyl magnesium iodide 
• 58326-67-3 pyropheophorbide-d methyl ester 
• 7647-01-0 hydrogenchloride 
• 18107-18-1 diazomethyl-trimethyl-silane 
• 171598-60-0 methyl bacteriopyropheophorbide-a 
• 128969-77-7 3-(9-acetyl-14-ethyl-4,8,13,18-tetramethyl-20-oxo-13,14-dihydro-23H,25H-phorbin-3-yl)-propionic acid 3,7,11,15-tetramethyl-hexadec-2-enyl ester 
• 24533-72-0 pyropheophorbide a 
• 5594-30-9 methylpheophorbide a 
• 75-16-1 methylmagnesium bromide 
• 67-56-1 methanol 

Downstream Products

• 6453-67-4 methyl pyropheophorbide a 
• 36151-60-7 methyl mesopyropheophorbide a 

Relevant academic research and scientific papers

Systematic analysis of the demetalation kinetics of zinc chlorophyll derivatives possessing different substituents at the 3-position: Effects of the electron-withdrawing and electron-donating strength of peripheral substituents

Removal of the central metal from chlorophyll (Chl) molecules is biologically important in terms of production of the primary electron acceptors in photosystem-II photosynthetic reaction centers and the early stage in Chl degradation. The physicochemical properties on demetalation of chlorophyllous pigments are useful in the understanding of such reaction mechanisms in photosynthetic organisms. Here we analyzed the demetalation kinetics of a series of Zn-Chl derivatives with a systematic variation in the electron-withdrawing and -donating substituents at the 3-position of the chlorin macrocycle under acidic conditions to elucidate thoroughly the substitution effects on the demetalation properties of chlorophyllous pigments. Dehydrogenation of the aliphatic group (CH2CH3 → CH-CH2 → C? - CH) at the 3-position slowed the removal of the central zinc from the chlorin macrocycle. The gradual decrease in the demetalation rate constants of the three zinc chlorins originates from differences in the electron-withdrawing strength of the ethyl, vinyl, and ethynyl groups directly linked to the chlorin π macrocycle. Reduction of the 31-carbonyl groups significantly increased the demetalation rate constants, and the relative ratios of the demetalation rate constants of the zinc chlorins possessing a carbonyl group to those possessing the corresponding hydroxy group were analogous in the cases of 3-formyl- and 3-acetyl-zinc chlorins. The demetalation rate constants of the seven Zn-Chl derivatives possessing various electron-withdrawing and -donating groups exhibited good correlation with the Hammett σ parameters of the 3-position substituents.

Synthesis of deuterated chlorophyll derivatives and their physical properties

The 3-vinyl group of methyl pyropheophorbide-a, one of the chlorophyll-a derivatives, was chemically transformed into partially or fully deuterated vinyl, 1-hydroxyethyl, acetyl, formyl, and hydroxymethyl groups via oxidation, oxidative cleavage, reduction, dehydration, or Grignard reaction. Using commercially available sodium borodeuteride and trideuteromethyl iodide as deuterium sources, a variety of regioselectively deuterated pyropheophorbides were obtained with either no or a slight loss of the deuteration degree compared with those of the starting deuterated materials. The deuteration affected largely the related infrared vibrational bands, slightly the chemical shifts of specific proton signals, and no change of visible absorption bands in a solution.

Synthesis of 20-substituted chlorophyll derivatives with F-ring and optical properties of their less distorted chlorin π-systems

Under acidic conditions, methyl bacteriopheophorbides-d bearing a variety of substituents at the 20-position were dehydrated in a 1-hydroxyethyl group at the 3-position to give methyl 20-substituted pyropheophorbides-a. In the same pot, the resulting 3-vinyl group was successively cyclized at the 5-position to afford the corresponding 3,5-ethano-chlorins as analogs of sedimentary porphyrins with two exo-five-membered rings. The 20-substitution is essential to the cyclization to produce the additionally fused F-ring. After the ring closure, the 20-bromine atom and acetyl group were removed by the action of the same acid to give the 20-unsubstituted product. The steric size of the 20-substituents affected the cyclization as well as the electronic absorption and emission of the 3,5-ethano-chlorins in a solution. The F-ring fusion suppressed the conformational distortion of the chlorin π-plane, partially regulating the optical properties: decrease of red shifts in Qy maxima by the 20-substitution and reduction of almost all Stokes shifts.

Site-selective C20-fluorinations of chlorophyll-a derivatives using N-fluorobenzenesulfonimide and their optical properties

Site-selective fluorinations at the C20 position of methyl pyropheophorbides-a, which is derived from naturally occurring chlorophyll(Chl)-a, were achieved by using N-fluorobenzenesulfonimide (NFSI). All the synthetic Chl-a derivatives possessing a variety of the C3-substituents (vinyl, ethyl, formyl, acetyl, hydroxymethyl, and 1-hydroxyethyl groups) were mono-fluorinated to produce the corresponding 20-fluoro-chlorins as isolated products. These fluorinated products were characterized by 1D/2D NMR, visible absorption, and fluorescence emission spectroscopy. Owing to the strong electronegativity of the C20-fluorine atom, their red-most Qy absorption and fluorescence emission bands were bathochromically shifted except for the C3-acetyl substitutes. This study showed not only tolerance of the chlorin π-skeleton and C3-substituents to NFSI but also potential availability of the fluorinated Chl library.

Synthetic substituted boronates of dihydroxy-bacteriochlorin absorbing and emitting far-red to near-infrared light as bacteriopheophytin-a analogs

Several substituted boronates of methyl cis-7,8-dihydroxy-pyrobacteriopheophorbide-a possessing the same 3-acetyl-131-oxo-bacteriochlorin π-conjugated system as bacteriopheophytin-a found in type-II reaction centers of anoxygenic photosynthetic

Stereoselective self-aggregation of synthetic zinc 31-epimeric bacteriochlorophyll-: D analogs possessing a methylene group at the 132-position as models of green photosynthetic bacterial chlorosomes

Zinc bacteriochlorophyll-d analogs possessing a methylene group at the 132-position were prepared by chemical modification of naturally occurring chlorophyll-a. The synthetic 31-epimers were successfully separated by reverse phase HPLC to give diastereomerically pure samples. The stereochemistry of the chiral C31-center in the separated bacteriochlorophyll-d analogs was determined by HPLC analysis of the authentic stereoisomers prepared stereospecifically. Both the epimers were monomeric in tetrahydrofuran to give sharp absorption bands, while they self-aggregated to form chlorosomal oligomers with red-shifted bands in an aqueous Triton X-100 micelle solution. The resulting large oligomers deaggregated by addition of Triton X-100 to give monomeric species. Their aggregation and deaggregation were dependent on the 31-stereochemistry, indicating that each epimer produced self-aggregates that were supramolecularly different. The substitution with the 132-methylene group enhanced their self-aggregation abilities and the stability of their resulting self-aggregates.

Synthesis of monovinyl- and divinyl-chlorophyll analogs and their physical properties

Chlorophyll-a was chemically modified to methyl pyropheophorbides-a possessing 3,8-diethyl, 3-vinyl-8-ethyl, 3-ethyl-8-vinyl, and 3,8-divinyl groups. Analogous 3-ethyl-7-vinyl- and 3,7-divinyl-chlorins were prepared by derivatization of chlorophyll-b. The synthetic free bases as well as zinc 3-vinyl-chlorins were dissolved in THF and the monomeric diluted solutions were characterized by optical spectroscopy including visible absorption, circular dichroism, and fluorescence emission spectra. The optical data indicated that the 3-vinylation bathochromically shifted the visible (Soret/Qx/Qy) absorption and fluorescence emission maxima, the 7-vinylation moved the Soret/Qx and Qy/emission bands to longer and slightly shorter wavelengths, respectively, and the 8-vinylation induced red shifts of the Soret/Qx maxima and no (or faint red) shifts of the Qy/emission maxima. Zinc complexes of 3,7- and 3,8-divinyl-chlorins showed almost the same optical properties including fluorescence emission quantum yields and lifetimes as well as the same first oxidation potentials, thus, 3,7-divinyl-chlorophyll-a could be considered an alternative pigment to the naturally occurring 3,8-divinyl analog.

The in vitro photodynamic activity, photophysical and photochemical research of a novel chlorophyll-derived photosensitizer

Chlorophyll has always been used as the leading compound for photodynamic therapy drug development. In this paper, a novel methyl pyropheophorbide-a- derived photosensitizer, 3-acetyl-3-devinyl-131-dicyanomethylene-pyropheophorbide-a was synthesized through modifications at C-131, C-3, and C-17 positions of methyl pyropheophorbide-a. The compound exhibited a longer wavelength absorption at 713 nm (in methanol) than that of methyl pyropheophorbide-a (667 nm) due to the enlarged the aromatic conjugation system by dicyanomethylene, allowing it to be potential in deep tumor treatment. Moreover, benefiting from the carboxylic group at C-17 and the acetyl group at C-3, the title compound was endowed with better water solubility than that of methyl pyropheophorbide-a. Detailed in vitro photodynamic therapy research showed ADCPPa could be uptaken by cancer cells successfully and killed the cancer cells more efficiently than the leading compound methyl pyropheophorbide-a under light (light dose 10 J/cm2) due to the high singlet oxygen quantum yield (65.98%). The excellent anti-photobleaching ability (degradation rate 1.6% in 10 min) also boosted its potential in practical application. In addition, the research has disclosed that during photochemical processes of photodynamic therapy, the formation of singlet oxygen after photodynamic therapy treatment played a major role, comparing with the formation of superoxide anion and radicals. Finally, the real time quantitative polymerase chain reaction (RT-qPCR) experiments have showed that the target compound has important regulating effect on expression of CDK2 and Survivin, consequently leading to apoptosis and cell death.

Synthesis of methyl pyropheophorbide-d derivatives possessing the 3-acyl groups and their electronic absorption spectra

Methyl 3-acyl-pyropheophorbides-a were prepared by modification of naturally occurring chlorophyll-a through Grignard or Barbier reactions of the 3-formyl group and successive Ley-Griffith or Dess-Martin oxidations of the resulting secondary alcohols. The

Synthesis of chlorophyll-a derivatives methylated in the 3-vinyl group and their intrinsic site energy

Wittig reaction of methyl pyropheophorbide-d possessing the 3-formyl group gave readily methyl pyropheophorbides-a bearing a variety of 3-alkenyl groups as semi-synthetic models of chlorophyll-a. The 3-substituents rotated around the C3-C31 bond from the coplanar conformation with the chlorin π-system, moving the redmost visible absorption maxima to a shorter wavelength. The model experiments showed that natural chlorophyll-a carrying the 3-vinyl group would take a similar rotamer to control its intrinsic site energy.