A photo-stable and reversible pH-responsive phenazine dye displayed an obvious NIR absorption in a weak acid environment of tumor. The dye assembled into nanoparticles was developed for photoacoustic imaging-guided photothermal therapy in mice.
CO<sub>2</sub> Triggering and Controlling Orthogonally Multiresponsive Photochromic Systems
作者:Tamim A. Darwish、Richard A. Evans、Michael James、Nino Malic、Gerry Triani、Tracey L. Hanley
DOI:10.1021/ja1013322
日期:2010.8.11
We report a new generic method of reversibly controlling the photochromism of spiropyrans. It was found that the photochromic effect of spiropyrans can be reversibly switched on and off by addition and removal of carbon dioxide (CO2) to spiropyran in alcohol solutions containing an amidine (i.e., DBU) that acts as a CO2 sensitizer. Spiropyrans are not photochromic in the presence of DBU but photochromic when CO2 is subsequently added to the solution. The CO2 is readily removed by inert gas bubbling, thus allowing facile activation and deactivation of the photochromic effect. Carbon dioxide, without the presence of the sensitizing amidine, had no effect on photochromism of the spiropyrans. Other photochromic dyes classes such as spirooxazines and chromenes are not affected by this CO2/DBU stimulus. As a result, orthogonal activation of mixtures of spirooxazines and spiropyrans was achieved to provide four color states (clear, yellow, green, and blue) by varying the combinations of the stimuli of UV, visible light, CO2, and CO2 depleted. This finding now permits the many applications using spiropyrans to be CO2 responsive.
Synthesis of Spiropyrans As Building Blocks for Molecular Switches and Dyads
作者:Christoph Beyer、Hans-Achim Wagenknecht
DOI:10.1021/jo100309r
日期:2010.4.16
The synthesis of spiropyrans was improved significantly with use of ultrasonic radiation. To show the broad applicability of this methodology a range of spiropyrans were prepared which are equipped with iodo, hydroxyl, ethinyl, or azido groups as potential buildingblocks for conjugation to functional π-systems or biopolymers. Representatively, the conjugation chemistry was demonstrated for the preparation
Synthesis of DNA with Spirobenzopyran as an Internal Covalent Modification
作者:Hans-Achim Wagenknecht、Christoph Beyer
DOI:10.1055/s-0029-1219924
日期:2010.6
The photochromic spirobenzopyran was incorporated as an internal modification into oligonucleotides by two different synthetic strategies: For the first route the spiropyran phosphoramidite was synthesized as a DNA building block, whereas for the second route the postsynthetic ‘click’-type ligation was applied. Photoinduced ring opening of the chromophore could not be achieved in duplex DNA.