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LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Theses/Dissertations

2005

Porphyrins

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Synthetic Development And Application Of Compounds With Biological Relevance, Jeffery Caleb Clark Jan 2005

Synthetic Development And Application Of Compounds With Biological Relevance, Jeffery Caleb Clark

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Nature has provided a vast number of compounds that have medicinal application. The use of these compounds provided by nature however, is limited by the amount of a specific compound that nature provides. The synthesis of these molecules and their derivatives provides an even greater number of compounds for biological screening. Various pyrroles, the heterocyclic building blocks of porphyrins, can be prepared synthetically over several steps. The implementation of carboranes on pyrrole rings intrinsically provides substrates that can be converted into porphyrins bearing carborane substituents. The condensation of these carboranylpyrroles with carboranylaldehydes provides carboranylporphyrins bearing a higher order of carborane …


Synthesis Of Symmetric And Asymmetric Water-Soluble Porphyrin Derivatives, Caroline Owendi Ongayi Jan 2005

Synthesis Of Symmetric And Asymmetric Water-Soluble Porphyrin Derivatives, Caroline Owendi Ongayi

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

Novel symmetric and asymmetric water-soluble tetrabenzoporphyrin are synthesized in relatively good yields. These compounds are synthesized by the condensation of butanopyrrole with several aldehydes that contain masked water solubilizing groups followed by metal insertion, oxidation and demetallation and deprotection of the masked solubilizing groups. The biological evaluation (in vitro and in vivo) studies are described in addition to the photophysical evaluations of the corresponding compounds. A novel versatile route to the syntheses of novel free-bases and metallo-benzoylbiliverdin is discussed. The treatment of metal free-dodecasubstituted porphyrin with sodium nitrite and trifluoroacetic acid at room temperature in the presence of oxygen affords …