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INORGANIC CHEMISTRY
Volume 60, Issue 9, Pages 6739-6745Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.1c00567
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- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (KAKENIHI) [JP17 K06850]
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Water-soluble silver(II)-phthalocyanine complexes have been synthesized and can be effectively disaggregated into monomeric species with appropriate surfactants. The complexes can rapidly react with thiols and release the corresponding macrocyclic ligand.
Water-soluble silver(II)-phthalocyanine complexes (AgPcs), tetrakis{4-(N-alkylpyridinium)thio}phthalocyaninato silver(II) tetrafluoroborate, [Ag(tRpySpc)](BF4)(4), (R = Me and Et), have been synthesized for the first time by quaternization of pyridyl groups of tetrakis(4-pyridylthio)phthalocyaninato silver(II) by using Meerwein reagents and characterized by ESI-MS, elemental analyses, and optical absorption spectroscopy. Although they strongly aggregate in water, the presence of appropriate surfactants, such as polyethyleneglycol-monooleyl ether (n = approximately 50; PEG50) and sodium dodecyl sulfate, effectively disaggregates them to monomeric species. The spectral properties of the AgPcs and their aggregates in aqueous and nonaqueous solutions have been investigated by optical absorption, emission, and magnetic circular dichroism spectroscopy. These AgPcs rapidly react with thiols such as cysteine, glutathione, homocysteine, and sodium 2-sulfanylethanesulfonate (even on the order of 0.01 mM) in aqueous PEG50 solutions at room temperature to liberate the corresponding macrocyclic ligand, H2Pc, but not with the other amino-acid analogs without sulfhydryl groups. The molar ratio of thiol to AgPc has been determined to be 1:1. Since AgPcs are essentially nonfluorescent at room temperature, while H(2)Pcs emit intense red fluorescence, AgPcs can be a potent thiol-sensor toward bioimaging.
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