The synthesis and 1O2 photosensitization of halogenated asymmetric aniline-based squaraines
作者:Chao Luo、Qianxiong Zhou、Guoyu Jiang、Liqing He、Baowen Zhang、Xuesong Wang
DOI:10.1039/c0nj00949k
日期:——
The halogenated (brominated or iodinated) squaraines have promising potential in the application of photodynamic therapy (PDT). Though aniline-based squaraines are the most classical squaraine dyes, no halogenated derivatives with the halogen atoms directly incorporated in the conjugation skeleton of the squaraine chromophore have been reported so far. In this work, a stepwise synthetic approach, i.e. by way of the halogenated semi-squaraines, was applied successfully to prepare halogenated asymmetric aniline-based squaraines. Such a structure makes iodine atoms be able to exert significant heavy atom effect on the intersystem crossing (ISC) efficiency of the squaraine dye. As a result, the iodinated asymmetric squaraine (SQ–OH–I) exhibits a singlet oxygen (1O2) quantum yield as high as 0.54. In contrast, the 1O2 quantum yield of the non-halogenated squaraine analogue (SQ–OH) is only 0.02.
溴化或碘化的方形染料在光动力治疗(PDT)应用中具有良好的潜力。尽管基于苯胺的方形染料是最经典的方形染料,但迄今为止尚未报道将卤素原子直接引入方形染料共轭骨架的卤素衍生物。在本研究中,成功应用了一种逐步合成的方法,即通过卤化半方形染料制备卤化不对称基于苯胺的方形染料。这种结构使碘原子能够对方形染料的系间交叉(ISC)效率施加显著的重原子效应。因此,碘化不对称方形染料(SQ–OH–I)的单重氧(1O2)量子产率高达0.54。相比之下,未卤化方形染料 аналог(SQ–OH)的1O2量子产率仅为0.02。