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Abstract : This thesis reports on the use of the element boron in organic chemistry. Its role in catalysis, as well as its broad utility when in the form of a boronic acid functional group is demonstrated. Boric acid and boronic acids have applications in numerous kinds of chemical reactions as catalysts. Boric acid is demonstrated in this work to catalyse the esterification of a- hydroxycarboxylic acid starting materials, including carbohydrates, typically in excellent yield. A series of reactions were conducted to demonstrate the utility and limitations of this technique. Included in this work is the synthesis of the carbohydrate, KDO. Furthermore, a series of esters were generated using salicylic acid as a starting material, one of which was subjected to x-ray crystallographic studies. Also in this thesis a novel type of boronic acid catalysed amide forming reaction is described. The reaction is shown to proceed rapidly under mild reaction conditions with little purification required to give a pure product. Structural identification of the amide products is discussed and hypothesised molecular configurations are presented. Fluorescence sensors are described as a practical application of boron {u2013} polyol interactions. Supporting theories are outlined and published work is summarised, compared and contrasted. The carbohydrates sialic acid and KDO are identified as molecular targets for boronic acid based fluorescence sensors. The benefits of multiple binding sites and optimised molecular geometry are clearly shown in the results of fluorescence assays. Sensor molecules reported in this thesis demonstrated selective binding to the carbohydrates, sialic acid and KDO.
The boronic acid functional group is known to bind compounds with the diol group tightly and reversibly in aqueous environment and has been used as a recognition moiety for the design of carbohydrate sensors. The first chapter of the dissertation studies the synthesis and substitution effect on the affinity and selectivity of a known boronic acid-based glucose sensor. In such a sensor design effort, the availability of a signaling event, whether it is fluorescence or UV, is crucial. The second chapter studies the detailed mechanism on how a well-known fluorescent boronic acid compound changes fluorescent properties upon binding. A new mechanism has been established which corrected a decade old mistake. In the third chapter, a series of boronic acid-based sensors were designed and synthesized for sialic acid, which is part of tetrasaccharide found on many cell surface carbohydrates. Such sialic acid sensors could be very useful for the development of new type of anti-influenza therapy. The fourth is on the design and synthesis novel and selective inhibitors for phosphodiesterase 4 (PDE4), which are potential anti-asthma agents.
Over the past few decades, there has been significant interest in developing fluorescent probes, because they are useful tools for biological studies. As effective analytical techniques, fluorescent probes utilize distinct advantages offered by fluorescence detection in terms of sensitivity, selectivity, and fast response time. When fluorescent probes interact selectively with target molecules, ions or biological specimens, they can generate large optical responses. Since most ions or molecules, such as Zn2+, Ca2+, or pyrophosphate ion (PPi), are non-fluorescent, chemosensors having analyte binding-triggered fluorescence are appealing in many fields, like analytical chemistry, clinical biochemistry, medicine, and environmental science.This dissertation is devoted to the design, synthesis, and characterization of novel fluorescent sensors for Zn2+ and its associated applications. Chapter II of this dissertation presents several novel terpyridine-based fluorescent sensors with different substituents affecting the electronic and steric nature of the terpyridine (tpy) fluorophore. Sensors are designed to establish the correlation between sensor structure and its photophysical properties. Low temperature fluorescence is used to evaluate the essential role of intramolecular charge transfer (ICT) in zinc binding-induced fluorescence changes. The tpy molecular fragment has a relatively large [pi]-conjugated system which enables the potential [pi-pi] interaction between two tpy platforms and affects the fluorescence of tpy ligands. Chapter III introduces a dimeric tpy ligand containing two tpy fragments connected via a meta-phenylene unit. The detailed spectroscopic study shows that this ligand displays an attractive fluorescence turn-on, in sharp contrast to mono(tpy) ligand that shows fluorescence quenching upon binding Zn2+. The result suggests the existence of delicate structural influences on fluorescence of tpy derivatives.Chapter IV is devoted to 2-(2'-hydroxyphenyl)-1,3-benzoxazole (HBO) and 2-(2'-hydroxyphenyl)-1,3-benzothiazole (HBT) derivatives featured with a structural potential of excited-state intramolecular proton transfer (ESIPT). The study reveals additional information on the binding of HBO or HBT to metal cations, which aids the sensor design for Zn2+ and PPi detection. The molecular design aims to realize ESIPT process control upon complexation with an analyte. Chapter V is devoted to the synthesis of bis(HBO) derivatives which bind Zn2+ selectively and emit near-infrared (NIR) fluorescence as a consequence of metal ion binding-induced ESIPT turn-on. Preliminary cell stain experiment was conducted and indicated the potential biological applications.
In this dissertation, we established a new approach assisted by computational chemistry to design fluorescent sensors. The approach is applicable to predict the behavior of a fluorophore-bridge-receptor sensor based on photoinduced electron transfer (PET). Our first designed rhodamine based pH sensor exhibits strong fluorescence under acidic conditions and very weak fluorescence under basic conditions, just as the computations predicted.