Synthesis, characterization and applications of BODIPY-derived fluorophores

Author(s)

Lucas Cunha Dias de Rezende

• Document type: Doctoral Thesis
• Press: Ribeirão Preto.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Ciências Farmacêuticas de Ribeirão Preto (PCARP/BC)
• Defense date: 2016-03-23

Examining board members

Flavio da Silva Emery; Giuliano Cesar Clososki; Antonio Eduardo Miller Crotti; Rodrigo Luiz Oliveira Rodrigues Cunha; Kleber Thiago de Oliveira

• Advisor: Flavio da Silva Emery

Abstract

The development of fluorescence-based analytical, spectroscopic and image techniques is associated with the necessity of fluorescent probes with diverse properties and applications. Among the available fluorescent probes, borondipyrromethene (BODIPY) derivatives, discovered in the late 1960`s, became widely applied since the late 1980`s. This PhD thesis is a pioneering study in Brazil, concerning the synthesis, chemical modification and photophysical characterization of BODIPYs. In the first stage of the project some methods for the synthesis of BODIPYs were stablished and then applied in the development of a library of fluorescent probes. The photophysical study of this fluorophore library enabled us to identify and further study particularities of some fluorophores, such as solvatochromism, halochromism and ionochromism. The second stage of the project involved the establishment of methods for the chemical modification BODIPYs, aiming at the photophysical and structural diversification of the library. Reactive BODIPYs were synthesized and subjected to reactions such as nucleophilic substitution, Suzuki, Sonogashira, Knoevenagel and direct arylation, resulting in the obtainment of compounds with diverse optical properties. Finally, in the third stage of the project, it is described the development of new methods for the chemical modification of BODIPY fluorophores. It was developed a simple and high yielding method for the direct thiocyanation of this class of compounds, based on the use of ammonium thiocyanate and oxone ®. The scope and limitations of the new thiocyanation method has been studied in BODIPYs with different electronic properties. It was also shown the conversion of thiocyanated BODIPYs to thioalkylated derivatives bearing particular optical characteristics. In conclusion, in this PhD thesis an innovative research line involving the synthesis and chemical modification of a class of compounds with broad technological application has been established. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 11/23342-9 - Synthesis, characterization and applications of BODIPY fluorophores.
• Grantee: Lucas Cunha Dias de Rezende
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate