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Title: Here aqueous solubilization of hydrophobic tetrapyrrole macrocycles by attachment to an amphiphilic single-chain nanoparticle (SCNP)

Journal Article · · New Journal of Chemistry
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1039/d0nj04413j· OSTI ID:1850693

Solubilization of hydrophobic tetrapyrrole macrocycles and other fluorophores in aqueous solution has been achieved by covalent attachment to the terminus of an amphiphilic polymer, thereby affording a single-fluorophore–single-chain nanoparticle (SCNP). The polymer is a heterotelechelic random polyacrylate/polyacrylamide copolymer bearing hydrophobic and hydrophilic pendant groups. The polymer has a folded unimeric morphology (~13 nm hydrodynamic diameter) in 1 M NaCl aqueous solution as indicated by dynamic light-scattering spectroscopy. Five hydrophobic organic fluorophores (coumarin, perylene, two chlorins, one phthalocyanine) have been synthesized with a conjugatable tether. Covalent conjugation of the fluorophore–maleimide to the polymer terminus via thiol–maleimide reaction was carried out in DMF. The resulting fluorophore–SCNP in 1 M NaCl aqueous solution exhibited retained spectral features and fluorescence quantum yield comparable to those of the respective hydrophobic benchmark in toluene. This single-fluorophore–single-polymer strategy simplifies the challenging and often idiosyncratic syntheses of water-soluble tetrapyrrole macrocycles by using the polymer as a general aqueous solubilization package, and in so doing opens up opportunities for the application of hydrophobic fluorophores in the life sciences.

Research Organization:
Washington Univ., St. Louis, MO (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS); Photosynthetic Antenna Research Center (PARC)
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0001035; 2R44AI112302-04A1
OSTI ID:
1850693
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1734809
Journal Information:
New Journal of Chemistry, Vol. 44, Issue 48; ISSN 1144-0546
Publisher:
Royal Society of ChemistryCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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