ISMSC 2007 - Università degli Studi di Pavia
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PSA 43<br />
Self-assembled fluorescent micellar sensors for pH windows: how to easily<br />
tune the window position along the pH axis<br />
Piersandro Pallavicini, Yuri Diaz Fernandez, Carlo Mangano, Luca Pasotti and Stefano Patroni<br />
Dipartimento <strong>di</strong> Chimica Generale, <strong>Università</strong> <strong>di</strong> <strong>Pavia</strong>, v.le Taramelli, 12 – 27100 <strong>Pavia</strong><br />
Micellar fluorescent sensors for pH windows may be self-assembled in water by combining a<br />
fluorophore, a lipophilic pyri<strong>di</strong>ne derivative and a lipophilic tertiary amine inside the same<br />
micelle. In particular 2-dodecylpyri<strong>di</strong>ne and N,N-<strong>di</strong>methyl-dodecylamine may be advantageously<br />
used with pyrene as a fluorophore in TritonX-100 micelles.[1] Being pyri<strong>di</strong>num and trialkyl<br />
amines efficient intramicellar quenchers of pyrene fluorescence (by electron transfer<br />
mechanisms), transition from OFF to ON state, and again from ON to OFF state, takes place at pH<br />
values correspon<strong>di</strong>ng to pyri<strong>di</strong>um and ammonium pKa, as pictorially represented in the scheme.<br />
Modulation of the position and amplitude of the fluorescent window along the pH axis has been<br />
obtained by changing the substituents on the tertiary amino and pyri<strong>di</strong>ne moieties, in order to<br />
<strong>di</strong>rectly influence their pKa. We now have developed a new and straightforward approach to<br />
move at will the fluorescent ON window along the entire pH axis. The pKa of aci<strong>di</strong>c species is<br />
mo<strong>di</strong>fied by micellization with respect to their intrinsic values found in pure water. In particular,<br />
changing the overall charge of a micelle results in a change of the observed aci<strong>di</strong>c constants:<br />
the more the micellar charge is negative, the lower is the observed deprotonation constant. We<br />
thus used only 2-dodecylpyri<strong>di</strong>ne and N,N-<strong>di</strong>methyl-dodecylamine as bases but we<br />
progressively added increasing quantities of so<strong>di</strong>um dodecyl sulphate (SDS) to TritonX-100<br />
micelles. We observed a shift of the fluorescent window position towards higher pH values with<br />
a continuous smooth trend as a function of SDS molar fraction. Potentiometric determination of<br />
the protonation constants confirmed that the shift is due to the change in the observed<br />
protonation constant of the micellized species. Starting from all-TritonX-100 and en<strong>di</strong>ng will all-<br />
SDS micelles, the whole “tra<strong>di</strong>tional” pH axis (2-12) may be spanned by the ON fluorescent<br />
window.<br />
[1] Yuri Diaz-Fernandez, Francesco Foti, Carlo Mangano, Piersandro Pallavicini, Stefano<br />
Patroni, Aurora Perez-Gramatges and Simon Rodriguez-Calvo, Chem. Eur. J., 2006, 12, 921-<br />
930<br />
A Directed Four-Component Self-Sorting System<br />
Roy D’souza and Werner M. Nau*<br />
Jacobs University Bremen, Campus Ring 1, D-28759 Bremen, Germany<br />
Self-sorting phenomena are a cornerstone in the functioning of biological systems. This ability of<br />
molecules to recognize specific other molecules within complex mixtures is less frequently<br />
observed in synthetic systems. [1] While thermodynamic versus kinetic control has already been<br />
reported for sorting behavior, [2] we now introduce a chemical control element, thereby<br />
establishing a show-case of <strong>di</strong>rected self-sorting.<br />
SO 3<br />
SO 3<br />
N<br />
N<br />
O 3S<br />
O 3 S<br />
SO 3<br />
SO 3<br />
CX4•1 CX4•2<br />
N<br />
N<br />
-CD•1 -CD•2<br />
O 3S<br />
N<br />
O3S N<br />
N<br />
N<br />
Zn 2+<br />
O 3 S<br />
O 3S<br />
Zn 2+<br />
N<br />
N<br />
N<br />
N<br />
SO 3<br />
PSA 44<br />
We propose a four-component system, consisting of two hosts (p-sulfonatocalix[4]arene and cyclodextrin)<br />
and two guests (1 and 2), as a proof-of-principle. [3, 4] Both hosts have similar<br />
affinity to bind to either of the guests. However, upon the ad<strong>di</strong>tion of Zn 2+ , the preferential<br />
formation of a strongly bound ternary complex between Zn 2+ , p-sulfocalix[4]arene and 1<br />
simultaneously induces the complexation of -cyclodextrin with 2. This “clean-up” behavior<br />
successfully illustrates the potential of externally regulating the complexity of a system. It takes<br />
advantage of the interplay of competitive versus cooperative bin<strong>di</strong>ng to increase the selectivity<br />
of supramolecular interactions in apparently complex multicomponent systems.<br />
[1] A. Wu and L. Isaacs, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2003, 125, 4831-4835.<br />
[2] P. Mukhopadhyay, P. Y. Zavalij and L. Isaacs, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2006, 128, 14093-<br />
14102.<br />
[3] H. Bakirci, X. Zhang and W. M. Nau, J. Org. Chem., 2005, 70, 39-46<br />
[4] H. Bakirci, A. L. Koner, M. H. Dickman, U. Kortz and W. M. Nau, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.,<br />
2006, 45, 7400-7404<br />
SO 3