Nucleobase Mediated, Photocatalytic Vesicle Formation from an Ester Precursor

详细信息    查看全文

• 作者：Michael S. DeClue ; Pierre-Alain Monnard ; James A. Bailey ; Sarah E. Maurer ; Gavin E. Collis ; Hans-Joachim Ziock ; Steen Rasmussen ; James M. Boncella
• 刊名：Journal of the American Chemical Society
• 出版年：2009
• 出版时间：January 28, 2009
• 年：2009
• 卷：131
• 期：3
• 页码：931-933
• 全文大小：196K
• 年卷期：v.131,no.3(January 28, 2009)
• ISSN：1520-5126

文摘

We report the use of photoinduced electron transfer to drive reductive cleavage of an ester to produce bilayer-forming molecules; specifically, visible photolysis in a mixture of a decanoic acid ester precursor, hydrogen donor molecules, and a ruthenium-based photocatalyst that employs a linked nucleobase (8-oxo-guanine) as an electron donor generates decanoic acid. The overall transformation of the ester precursor to yield vesicles represents the use of an external energy source to convert nonstructure forming molecules into amphiphiles that spontaneously assemble into vesicles. The core of our chemical reaction system uses an 8-oxo-G-Ru photocatalyst, a derivative of [tris(2,2′-bipyridine)-Ru(II)]²⁺.