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| Author(s): |
Flávio Vinícius Crizóstomo Kock
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Carlos. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Instituto de Química de São Carlos (IQSC/BT) |
| Defense date: | 2018-04-06 |
| Examining board members: |
Luiz Alberto Colnago;
Odilio Benedito Garrido de Assis;
Rose Maria Carlos;
Tiago Venâncio
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| Advisor: | Luiz Alberto Colnago |
| Abstract | |
Low-resolution (LR) and high-resolution (HR) nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) was used in this work for study coordination compounds containing paramagnetic ions in solution. It was demonstrated that these spectroscopies are important tools for the study of these species in aqueous medium, aiming applications in both, analytical chemistry and inorganic and bioinorganic chemistry. The initial studies were conducted using the EDTA (Y4-) ligand, classical complexant, and its chelate with the paramagnetic ions, among them Cu2+, Fe3+ and Mn2+. The results demonstrated that LR-NMR (20 MHz to 1H) becomes an efficient alternative to spectrophotometry, mainly for the study of complexes that do not absorb visible radiation, such as [Mn-Y]2- chelate. The LR-NMR relaxometry was also used to study chitosan (Chi) solutions and their complexes with the same paramagnetic ions previously discussed for EDTA. The results demonstrated the efficiency of the relaxometry for studies involving complexation and polymer aggregation as a function of the pH. Complexes of sorbitol with cupric ions were also addressed by relaxometry and HR-NMR (600 MHz to 1H). In this case, the results showed a high complementarity, allowing to infer about the ligand exchange and the optimum pH for the complexation reaction occurs. Besides, this study showed the appearance of species with low auto diffusion coefficients (D ≈ 1.58 x10-10 mm2.s-1) in alkaline mediums (pH ≈ 12), as consequence of the macromolecular character of this complex in this environment. In addition, new biologically relevant Gd3+ complexes (contrast agents) derived from AAZTA (6-amino-6-methylperhydro-1,4-diazepine) ligand were evaluated. The results demonstrated that the paramagnetic relaxivities (r1p) were 7.44 mM-1.s-1 and 9.41 mM-1.s-1 for derivatives laterally functionalized with propanoic and pentanoic acids, respectively, in comparison to precursor ligand, 7.10 mM-1.s-1. In vitro relaxometric studies demonstrated that these new derivatives are less susceptible to transmetallation reactions towards to endogenous ions (Zn2+ and Ca2+), in comparison to AAZTA (precursor ligand), becoming possible to design their use as contrast agents in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) tomography applications. In vivo studies were conducted using the pentanoic acid derivative conjugated to FibPep peptide, able to bind to fibrin protein (present in tumor cells). The results for this study demonstrated a high ability of this complex for the early and unequivocal signaling for prostate cancer (PC-3 tumoral cell line) in mice. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 12/23169-8 - In situ study of action of quitosan biopolymer in the decontamination of metals and herbicides in aqueous system by electrochemistry coupled to high and low field NMR |
| Grantee: | Flavio Vinicius Crizostomo Kock |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |