Synthesis and properties of monofluorinated dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine derivatives: Potential fluorinated probes for the study of membrane topology
The synthesis of three monofluorinated dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine derivatives (F-DMPC), with the fluorine atom located on the acyl chain in position 2 of the glycerol (sn-2) is described. The synthetic strategy relies on the coupling of 1-myristoyl-2-hydroxy-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (lyso-PC) and three different fluorinated fatty acids. The latter were obtained from two different and complementary