摘要:
Porphyrins substituted with, for example, vinyl and acetylene groups are provided, along with polymers containing the same. In preferred embodiments, the substituted porphyrins are prepared by coupling halogenated porphyrins with anionic groups via metal-mediated cross-coupling reactions under stoichiometric or catalytic conditions.
摘要:
Strapped porphyrins and electron-deficient porphyrins are provided, as well as processes and intermediates for their preparation. In certain embodiments, such compounds are prepared by nucleophilic displacement of leaving groups from methylpyrroles. In other embodiments, such compounds are prepared by condensing pyrrole derivatives and removing water thus formed from the resulting reaction mixture.
摘要:
The invention is directed to phosphoramidite derivatives of macrocycles, such as porphyrins and expanded porphyrins, including sapphyrins and texaphyrins. The phosphoramidite derivatives are useful as intermediates in the preparation of macrocycle-oligonucleotide conjugates.
摘要:
The invention is directed to a particular class of metal complexes, specifically certain texaphyrin metal complexes, which both hydrolyze and photocleave RNA, and which also both hydrolyze RNA and photocleave DNA. In one embodiment, the present invention is directed to a method for both hydrolyzing and photocleaving a polymer of ribonucleic acid, the method comprising the steps of contacting the polymer of ribonucleic acid with a texaphyrin metal complex exhibiting catalytic activity for both hydrolysis and photocleavage of ribonucleic acid polymers, incubating the polymer and the metal complex under conditions and for a time sufficient to hydrolyze the phosphate ester bond of the polymer, and exposing the texaphyrin metal complex to light for a time sufficient to photocleave the polymer. In another embodiment of the present invention, the invention is directed to a method for both hydrolyzing a polymer of ribonucleic acid and photocleaving a polymer of deoxyribonucleic acid, the method comprising the steps of contacting a mixture of the ribonucleic acid polymer and the deoxyribonucleic acid polymer with a texaphyrin metal complex exhibiting catalytic activity for both hydrolysis of ribonucleic acid polymers and photocleavage of deoxyribonucleic acid polymers, incubating the polymer mixture and the metal complex under conditions and for a time sufficient to hydrolyze the phosphate ester bond of the ribonucleic acid polymer, and exposing the texaphyrin metal complex to light for a time sufficient to photocleave the deoxyribonucleic acid polymer.
摘要:
Substituted compounds having relatively large molecular first order hyperpolarizabilities are provided, along with devices and materials containing them. In general, the compounds bear electron-donating and electron-withdrawing chemical substituents on a polyheterocyclic core.
摘要:
The present invention relates to the use of water-soluble texaphyrin-diamagnetic metal complexes retaining lipophilicity as photosensitizers in the treatment of benign and malignant neoplastic tissue.
摘要:
The invention is directed to a method of incorporating expanded porphyrins, and particularly of incorporating a sapphyrin or a texaphyrin, before, during, or after chemical synthesis of an oligomer to form an expanded porphyrin-oligonucleotide conjugate, and particularly a sapphyrin- or texaphyrin-oligonucleotide conjugate. This method includes reacting derivatized nucleotides and a sapphyrin or a texaphyrin in a desired order in an automated or manual DNA synthesizer having a solid support to form a sapphyrin- or a texaphyrin-oligonucleotide conjugate.
摘要:
The present invention involves water soluble hydroxy-substituted texaphyrins retaining lipophilicity, the synthesis of such compounds and their uses. These expanded porphyrin-like macrocycles are efficient chelators of divalent and trivalent metal ions. Various metal (e.g., transition, main group, and lanthanide) complexes of the hydroxy-substituted texaphyrin derivatives of the present invention have unusual water solubility and stability. They absorb light strongly in a physiologically important region (i.e. 690-880 nm). They have enhanced relaxivity and therefore are useful in magnetic resonance imaging. They form long-lived triplet states in high yield and act as photosensitizers for the generation of singlet oxygen. Thus, they are useful for inactivation or destruction of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1), mononuclear or other cells infected with such virus as well as tumor cells. They are water soluble, yet they retain sufficient lipophilicity so as to have greater affinity for lipid rich areas such as atheroma and tumors. They may be used for magnetic resonance imaging followed by photodynamic tumor therapy in the treatment of atheroma and tumors. These properties, coupled with their high chemical stability and appreciable solubility in water, add to their usefulness.
摘要:
The present invention provides various covalently modified sapphyrin derivatives and conjugates, and also, polymers including sapphyrin or derivatives thereof. Disclosed are water soluble sapphyrins, including polyhydroxysapphyrins and sapphyrin-sugar derivatives; sapphyrin-metal chelating conjugates; sapphyrin nucleobase conjugates; and polymer supported sapphyrins. Novel sapphyrin dimers, trimers, oligomers and polymers are also described, which polymers may include repeating units of sapphyrin or sapphyrin derivatives alone, or may further incorporate other units such as nucleobases.
摘要:
The present invention involves, in addition to many unique substituted sapphyrins, a novel method for synthesizing sapphyrins with good efficiency and high yield. An improved 9-step synthesis of substituted sapphyrins, e.g., the two C.sub.2 symmetric sapphyrins, compounds 2 and 4 of FIG. 1C, is described herein. This synthesis involves as an important step the condensation between a tripyrrane diacid and a diformyl bipyrrole. The key tripyrrane component is prepared in three high-yield steps from readily available pyrrolic precursors and the bipyrrole portion is prepared in four steps from ethyl 3-methyl-4-methylpyrrole-2-carboxylate in roughly 33% yield overall.