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Synthesis of Carbophosphinocarbene and Their Donating Ability: Expansion of the Carbone Class
Liu, Shu-Kai,Chen, Wen-Ching,Yap, Glenn P. A.,Ong, Tiow-Gan
, p. 4395 - 4401 (2020)
In recent years, carbones (CL2) have established themselves to be reliable ligands in organometallic and catalytic reactions. With its superb donating ability as well as a second lone pair for extra coordination, it distinguishes itself from the widely used carbenes and phosphines. However, a lack of modular structural diversity in carbones has limited its use. A carbophosphinocarbene (CPC), a subclass of carbones containing a carbene and phosphine as flanking groups, offers an easy structural modification. In this work, we report a new modular synthetic procedure for CPCs by using readily available starting materials. In addition, the phosphine moiety can be easily exchanged and directly used out of the bottle. The resulting CPCs offer a strong donating ability. Their electronic properties have been determined using Ga and Au complexes.
Anti-oligomerization sheet molecules: Design, synthesis and evaluation of inhibitory activities against α-synuclein aggregation
Liu, Hao,Chen, Li,Zhou, Fei,Zhang, Yun-Xiao,Xu, Ji,Xu, Meng,Bai, Su-Ping
supporting information, p. 3089 - 3096 (2019/06/14)
Aggregation of α-synuclein (α-Syn) play a key role in the development of Parkinson Disease (PD). One of the effective approaches is to stabilize the native, monomeric protein with suitable molecule ligands. We have designed and synthesized a series of sheet-like conjugated compounds which possess different skeletons and various heteroatoms in the two blocks located at both ends of linker, which have good π-electron delocalization and high ability of hydrogen-bond formation. They have shown anti-aggregation activities in vitro towards α-Syn with IC50 down to 1.09 μM. The molecule is found binding in parallel to the NACore within NAC domain of α-Syn, interfering aggregation of NAC region within different α-Syn monomer, and further inhibiting or slowing down the formation of α-Syn oligomer nuclei at lag phase. The potential inhibitor obtained by our strategy is considered to be highly efficient to inhibit α-Syn aggregation.
DNA switches on the two-photon efficiency of an ultrabright triphenylamine fluorescent probe specific of at regions
Dumat, Blaise,Bordeau, Guillaume,Faurel-Paul, Elodie,Mahuteau-Betzer, Florence,Saettel, Nicolas,Metge, Germain,Fiorini-Debuisschert, Celine,Charra, Fabrice,Teulade-Fichou, Marie-Paule
, p. 12697 - 12706 (2013/09/23)
We report on the design and synthesis of two-photon fluorescent triphenylamines bearing two or three vinyl branches terminated by a N-methyl benzimidazolium moiety. The new compounds (TP-2Bzim, TP-3Bzim) are light-up fluorescent DNA probes with a long wavelength emission (>580 nm). Compared to their pyridinium models, the TP-Bzim dyes exhibit a remarkable improvement of both their DNA affinity and fluorescence quantum yield, especially for the two-branch derivative (TP-2Bzim: ΦF = 0.54, Ka = 107 M-1), resulting in a large fluorescence emission turn-on ratio of up to 140. Concomitantly, the two-photon absorption cross-section of TP-2Bzim is dramatically enhanced upon DNA binding (δ = 1080 vs 110 GM for the free form). This effect of the DNA matrix on the nonlinear absorption is uncovered for the first time. This is attributed to a tight fit of the molecule inside the minor groove of AT-rich DNA which induces geometrical rearrangements in the dye ground state as supported by circular dichroism and molecular modeling data. Consequently, TP-2bzim displays an exceptional two-photon molecular brightness (δ×ΦF = 583 GM), a value unrivalled for a small biofluorophore. These properties enable to image nuclear DNA in fixed cells at submicromolar concentration ([TP-2Bzim] = 100 nM) and to visualize ultrabright foci of centromeric AT-rich chromatin. Finally TP-2Bzim exhibits a high photostability, is live-cell permeant, and does not require RNase treatment. This outstanding combination of optical and biological properties makes TP-2Bzim a bioprobe surpassing the best DNA stainers and paves the way for studying further nonlinear optical processes in DNA.
