Tetraphenylethylene conjugated p-hydroxyphenacyl: fluorescent organic nanoparticles for the release of hydrogen sulfide under visible light with real-time cellular imaging

Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) behaves like a two-edged sword, at low concentrations it has beneficial and cytoprotective effects, while at higher concentrations it exhibits toxicity. Hence there is a keen interest in developing light responsive H2S donors with a spatio-temporal controlled release. Herein,...

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Published in:Organic & biomolecular chemistry 2018-10, Vol.16 (42), p.7903-7909
Main Authors: Parthiban, C, M, Pavithra, Reddy, L Vinod Kumar, Sen, Dwaipayan, Samuel S, Melvin, Singh, N D Pradeep
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Agglomeration
Biocompatibility
Controlled release
Donors (electronic)
Emission
Fluorescence
Hydrogen
Hydrogen sulfide
Low concentrations
Monitoring
Nanoparticles
Real time
Toxicity
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Summary:Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) behaves like a two-edged sword, at low concentrations it has beneficial and cytoprotective effects, while at higher concentrations it exhibits toxicity. Hence there is a keen interest in developing light responsive H2S donors with a spatio-temporal controlled release. Herein, we report visible light activatable tetraphenylethylene conjugated p-hydroxyphenacyl (TPE-pHP-H2S) nanoparticles for the release of hydrogen sulfide (H2S) with a real time monitoring ability. Our newly designed photoresponsive single component organic nanoparticle based H2S donor is built by integrating the tetraphenylethylene (TPE) moiety and p-hydroxyphenacyl (pHP) group so that it can display both aggregation-induced emission (AIE) and excited state intramolecular proton transfer (ESIPT) properties. Aggregation-induced emission enhancement was exhibited by our TPE-pHP-H2S NP donor, which was then explored for the cellular imaging application. The ESIPT by the pHP moiety provided unique advantages to our TPE-pHP-H2S NP donor which include (i) the excitation wavelength extended to >410 nm (ii) a large Stokes shift (iii) a low inner filter effect and (iv) real-time monitoring of H2S release by a simple fluorescent colour change. In vitro studies showed that the TPE-pHP-H2S NP donor presents excellent properties like real-time monitoring, photoregulated H2S release and biocompatibility.
ISSN:1477-0520
1477-0539
DOI:10.1039/c8ob01629a