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CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL
Volume 16, Issue 46, Pages 13757-13772Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201000611
Keywords
amphiphilic oligosaccharides; fluorescent probes; ion transport; macrocyclic compounds; self-assembly
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A novel fluorescently labelled synthetic ionophore, based on a cyclic phosphate-linked disaccharide (CyPLOS) backbone and decorated with four tetraethylene glycol tails carrying dansyl units, has been synthesised in 12 steps in 26% overall yield. The key intermediate in the synthetic strategy is a novel glucoside building block, serving through its 2- and 3-hydroxy groups as the anchor point for flexible tetraethylene glycol tentacles with reactive azido moieties at their ends. To test the versatility of this glucoside scaffold, it was preliminarily functionalised with a set of diverse probes-as fluorescent, redox-active or hydrophobic tags-either by reduction of the azides followed by condensation with activated carboxylic acid derivatives, or by a direct coupling with a terminal alkyne in a Cu-I-promoted 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition. Tagging of the monomeric building block with dansyl residues allowed us to prepare a fluorescent, amphiphilic macrocycle, which was investigated for its propensity to self-aggregate in CDCl3-studied by means of concentration-dependent P-31 NMR spectroscopy experiments-and in aqueous solution, in which combined dynamic light scattering (DLS) and small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) measurements provided a detailed physico-chemical analysis of the self-assembled systems, mainly organised in the form of large vesicles. Its ion-transport properties through phospholipid bilayers, determined by HPTS fluorescence assays, showed this compound to be more active than the previously synthesised CyPLOS congeners. Solvent-dependent fluorescence changes for the labelled ionophore in liposome suspension established that the dansyl moieties are dispersed in environments with polarity intermediate between those of CH2Cl2 and propan-2-ol, suggesting that the CyPLOS tentacles infiltrate the mid-polar region of the membranes.
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