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| Author(s): |
Giancarlo di Vaccari Botteselle
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Conjunto das Químicas (IQ e FCF) (CQ/DBDCQ) |
| Defense date: | 2009-09-14 |
| Examining board members: |
Hélio Alexandre Stefani;
Diogo Seibert Ludtke;
Alvaro Takeo Omori
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| Advisor: | Hélio Alexandre Stefani |
| Abstract | |
The use of fluorescent probes for labeling or detection of biomolecules of interest in different biological processes, has received much attention in biomedical, clinical testing and cell biology research. In general, these fluorescent probes are composed of small organic molecules, which have fluorescent features and ability to combine with these biomolecules. Thus, this work initially describes the synthesis of 2-aryl or 2,5-diarylfurans and thiophenes (3, 5, 7 and 9a-i) from organic species of tellurium (1, 4, 6 and 8) and potassium organotrifluoroborate salts (2a-i) by palladium catalyzed Suzuki-Miyaura crosscoupling reaction [see the figure in the original file]. After describe the synthesis of a unsymmetrical 2,5-diarylfuran derivative, the 2-(3-aminophenyl)-5-(4-methoxyphenyl)furan 11, which presents chemical and luminescent properties appropriate to act as a promising new fluorescent probes in processes of marking or biological detection. The synthesis of this new probe, also called 3-AFA (3-AnilylFuranAnisole), was performed from palladium catalyzed Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling reaction, between (3- aminophenyl) boronic acid 5e and 2-(butyltellanyl)-5-(4-metoxyphenyl)furan 10 in 65 % yields. This new probe 3-AFA 11 was combined with a series of Lamino acids 12a-l from a peptidic coupling reaction to obtain their products 13a-l in satisfactory yield. These combined products 13a-l show a potential for fluorescent marking of proteolitic enzymes [see the figure in the original file]. Additionally, important photo physical properties of this new probe 3-AFA 11 were characterized. These include their electronic spectra of absorption and fluorescence emission, who obtained values of λex to 320 nm and λem to 400 nm, respectively. Finally, we tested the potential of probe 3-AFA 11 for intracellular accumulation in cellular systems such as: erythrocytes infected with Plasmodium chabaudi and amastigotes of Leishmania L. amazonensis, in all cases the fluorescent uptake cellular of their parasites can be observed. (AU) | |