Soluble single-walled carbon nanotubes as longboat delivery systems for platinum(IV) anticancer drug design.

Amine functionalized soluble single walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) were derivatized with cisplatin prodrug conjugates as a delivery system by which to internalize multiple prodrug centers. The platinum(IV) complex, ,,-[Pt(NH)Cl(OEt)(OCCHCHCOH)], was tethered to the surface of the carbon nanotubes through peptide linkages formed by the reaction of the SWNT-tethered amines with the carboxylate moiety. The SWNTs are taken into testicular cancer cells by endocytosis where the drop in pH facilitates reductive release of the platinum(II) core complex, which then readily diffuses throughout the cell, as determined by platinum atomic absorption spectroscopy.

Zinspy sensors with enhanced dynamic range for imaging neuronal cell zinc uptake and mobilization.

Thiophene moieties were incorporated into previously described Zinspy (ZS) fluorescent Zn(II) sensor motifs (Nolan, E. M.; Lippard, S.

Silver(I) 3-aminomethylpyridine complexes, part 2: effect of ligand ratio, hydrogen bonding, and pi-stacking with an interacting anion.

Reaction of 3-aminomethylpyridine (3-amp) with silver(I) salts of triflate (OTf-) and trifluoroacetate (tfa-) produce a variety of multidimensional coordination networks whose structures depend on the stoichiometry of the components present. A 1:1 ratio of 3-amp to AgX produces a linear polymer, 1, when X = tfa- and a planar sheet, 2, when X = OTf-. Addition of a second equivalent of ligand increases the dimensionality of both structures by one to form a two-dimensional sheet, 3, and a three-dimensional system, 4, for their respective anions.

Silver(I) 3-aminomethylpyridine complexes, part 1: effect of ligand ratio, pi-stacking, and temperature with a noninteracting anion.

The reaction of the asymmetric 3-aminomethylpyridine (3-amp) ligand with silver(I) tetrafluoroborate (AgBF4) produces an array of structural motifs that depend on the ratio of the reactants present and crystallization temperature. With a 1:1 ratio of 3-amp to silver, either a folded macrocycle, 1a, or a linear coordination polymer, 1, is formed, depending upon whether the crystals are grown at -35 or 5 degrees C. A 3:2 ratio forms two-dimensional sheets of 2 regardless of temperature of crystallization.

Variability in the structures of [4-(aminomethyl)pyridine]silver(I) complexes through effects of ligand ratio, anion, hydrogen bonding, and pi-stacking.

The reaction of the asymmetric 4-(aminomethyl)pyridine (4-amp) ligand with silver(I) salts of trifluoromethanesulfonate (triflate, OTf(-)), trifluoroacetate (tfa(-)), or tetrafluoroborate (BF(4)(-)) have produced a variety of one- and two-dimensional structural motifs depending upon the ratio in which the components are mixed. When the proportion of ligand to metal is 1:1, linear coordination polymers are formed with silver(I) OTf(-) (1) and tfa(-) (2). Altering the ratio to 2:1, a linear polymer of corner-shared boxes (3) is formed with tfa(-), a linear box-in-box "chain link" polymer (4) is formed with OTf(-), and a two-dimensional sheet (5) is constructed with BF(4)(-).

Anion-dependent silver(I) coordination polymers of the tridentate pyridylphosphonite: PPh(3-OCH2C5H4N)2.

Three new multidimensional coordination polymers have been constructed from the reaction of AgX, where X = OTf-, BF4-, or tfa-, with the novel phosphonite PhP(3-OCH2C5H4N)2, PCP-32, 1. It is seen that regardless of the ratio of reactants mixed, polymeric growth of the compounds always reveals a ligand-to-metal ratio of 1:2 for PCP-32AgOTf, 2, 1:1 for PCP-32AgBF4, 3, and 1:2 for PCP-32Ag(tfa), 4. The coordination number, metal environment, ligand conformation, and polymer dimensionality are found to vary greatly from 2 to 4 and are dependent upon the anion present.

Self-assembly of a mixed-ligand silver-based coordination polymer.

The novel title silver(I) coordination polymer, catena-poly[[acetonitrilesilver(I)]-di-mu-4-[N-(diphenylphosphino)aminomethyl]pyridine-kappa(2)N(1):P;kappa(2)P:N(1)-[acetonitrilesilver(I)]-mu(3)-4-[N,N-bis(diphenylphosphino)aminomethyl]pyridine-kappa(3)N(1):P:P'-bis[acetonitrilesilver(I)(Ag-Ag)]-mu(3)-4-[N,N-bis(diphenylphosphino)aminomethyl]pyridine-kappa(3)P:P':N(1)] tetrakis(tetrafluoroborate) acetonitrile trisolvate], [[Ag(4)(C(2)H(3)N)(4)(C(18)H(17)N(2)P)(2)(C(30)H(26)N(2)P(2))(2)](BF(4))(4).3C(2)H(3)N](n), is formed by the self-assembly of the Ph(2)P(4-NHCH(2)C(5)H(4)N) and (Ph(2)P)(2)(4-NCH(2)C(5)H(4)N) ligands with silver tetrafluoroborate. The polymer consists of alternating rings (which lie about inversion centers) bridged by the pyridyl rings of the bis-phosphine-substituted ligands, with anions hydrogen bonded the length of the chain.

Two-, three-, and four-coordinate Ag(I) coordination polymers formed by the novel phosphinite PPh2(3-OCH2C5H4N).

The novel phosphinite PPh(2)(3-OCH(2)C(5)H(4)N) (1) has been synthesized, and its coordination properties to Ag(I) have been studied. When reacted in a 1:1 ratio with Ag(I), coordination polymers with different coordination numbers about the Ag are found depending on the anion. For PPh(2)(3-OCH(2)C(5)H(4)N)AgBF(4) (2), a two-coordinate Ag is observed with a P-Ag-N angle of 167 degrees.