Preparation and Properties of Vesicles Made of Nonpolar/Polar/Nonpolar Fullerene Amphiphiles
摘要:
Twenty potassium complexes of penta-[(4-substituted)phenyl][60]fullerene anions were synthesized and examined for their ability to form bilayer vesicles in water. The 4-substituents include alkyl groups ranging from methyl to icosanyl groups and perfluoromethyl, perfluorobutyl, and perfluorooctyl groups. The overall structure of the amphiphiles can be described as a nonpolar/polar/nonpolar (n-p-n') motif as opposed to the usual polar/nonpolar motif of lipid amphiphiles. Despite the hydrophobicity of the fullerene moiety (n-part) and alkyl/perfluoroalkyl chains (n'-part), all compounds except for the one with perfluoromethyl groups were soluble in water because of the centrally located fullerene cyclopentadienide (p-part) and spontaneously formed a vesicle of 25- to 60-nm diameter with a narrow unimodal size distribution. The vesicles are stable upon heating to 90 degrees C or standing over one year in air, as well as on a solid substrate in air or in vacuum, maintaining their spherical form. The vesicle membrane consists of an interdigitated bilayer of the amphiphile molecules, in which the fullerene n-part is inside and the n'-side is exposed to water. These vesicles, in particular the one bearing icosanyl chains, exhibit the smallest water permeability coefficient ever found for a self-assembled membrane in water.
A fluorescent dye-doped crystalline assay is employed for selection and detection of thiophilic heavy metal ions. While comparable in analytical performance to known solution based methodologies, the formation of crystalline analytes provides for signal amplification, and consequently, a powerful platform whose analysis is directly amenable to high-throughput video capture systems. In a microcapillary format, this assay is capable of screening hundreds of samples per day for the presence of subnanomolar concentrations of Hg
2+
using a conventional fluorescence microscope.
[EN] SUBNANOMOLAR PRECIPITATOR OF THIOPHILIC METALS<br/>[FR] SELECTEUR SUBNANOMOLAIRE POUR METAUX THIOPHILES
申请人:SCRIPPS RESEARCH INST
公开号:WO2006055883A2
公开(公告)日:2006-05-26
[EN] A fluorescent dye-doped crystalline assay is employed for selection and detection of thiophilic heavy metal ions. While comparable in analytical performance to known solution based methodologies, the formation of crystalline analytes provides for signal amplification, and consequently, a powerful platform whose analysis is directly amenable to high-throughput video capture systems. In a microcapillary format, this assay is capable of screening hundreds of samples per day for the presence of subnanomolar concentrations of Hg2+ using a conventional fluorescence microscope. [FR] La présente invention concerne un essai sur cristaux utilisant un dopage à la teinture fluorescente pour sélectionner et détecter des ions de métaux thiophiles lourds. Tout en gardant une puissance d'analyse comparable à ce que donnent les procédés actuels à base de solution, le procédé de l'invention avec formation d'analysats cristallins permet en outre une amplification du signal. Il en découle qu'on peut ainsi disposer d'une puissante plate-forme dont l'analyse est exploitable pour des systèmes à capture vidéo à fort débit. En format microcapillaire, cet essai permet de rechercher systématiquement dans des centaines d'échantillons chaque jour la présence de concentrations subnanomolaire de Hg2+ avec un microscope conventionnel à fluorescence.