Neste trabalho foram desenvolvidos alguns estudos que tiveram como objetivo principal a utilização de reações de cicloadição como a Reação de Diels–Alder e a Cicloadição do tipo [6+4] na síntese de anulenos e baquenolidas. Na primeira parte (Parte A) são apresentadas algumas abordagens com o objetivo de produzir sistemas do tipo biciclo[6.2.1]undecano (42), similares a sistemas existentes em produtos naturais e que são precursores diretos do 1,4–metano[10]anuleno (41), uma estrutura hipotética, cuja síntese ainda não foi descrita. Os melhores resultados foram obtidos através de uma cicloadição [6+4] entre o ciclopentadieno 43 e a tropona 139 o que forneceu 140. Este produto guarda grande semelhança estrutural com o anuleno 41. Para efetuar o rompimento da ponte carbonílica, o melhor método que encontramos consistiu em transformar a cetona 140 em oxima, depois em lactama através de um rearranjo de Beckmann, transformação na forma tosilada e redução com LiAlH4. O álcool primário de 171 pôde ser eliminado com relativa facilidade, mas o grupo NHTs mostrou–se extremamente resistente à alquilação exaustiva/eliminação; apenas quando utilizamos sal de oxônio tivemos evidências de formação de carbocátion. No entanto, os resultados experimentais indicaram fortemente que o anuleno 41 não deve possuir estabilização aromática, pois não encontramos nada deste material no produto da eliminação que, além de Me2NTs, continha apenas polímeros. Alguns cálculos teóricos levaram também à conclusão de que 41 não deve ser aromático. Na segunda parte deste trabalho (Parte B) foram realizados alguns estudos sobre a síntese do produto natural (±)–baquenolida A (184). A etapa principal da síntese realizada foi uma reação de Diels–Alder entre o dieno 298 e o dienófilo 299 sob catálise de NbCl5. O aduto obtido (300) encontra–se devidamente funcionalizado e com a estereoquímica relativa apropriada para a síntese de vários produtos naturais da classe dos eremofilanos e dos bacanos, incluindo as baquenolidas. A síntese do produto natural 184 foi concluída em 8 etapas e com rendimento global de 13,3%. Finalmente foram realizados alguns estudos teóricos dos estados de transição envolvidos nas ciclizações dos enolatos dos compostos 286 e 305 obtendo–se proporções teóricas entre os epímeros 287/288 e 306/307 razoavelmente de acordo com os resultados experimentais. / In this work are described some studies of cycloaddition reactions, such as [4+2] (Diels–Alder reaction) and [6+4] cycloadditions, for the purpose of synthesizing annulenes and bakkenolides. In the first part (Part A) are presented some approaches for the synthesis of the bicyclo[6.2.1]undecane system (42), which is not only similar to systems that occur in some natural products, but also can be considered as a direct precursor of 1,4–metano[10]annulene (41) (a hypothetical structure, which has not yet been synthesized). The best results were obtained through the [6+4] cycloaddition between cyclopentadiene (43) and tropone (139), which furnished 140. This product is already very similar to the annulene 41. To perform the rupture of the carbonyl bridge, the best method that we found consists in transforming the ketone 140 in to the oxime, which was converted to the lactam 142 through a Beckmann rearrangement. This compound was tosilated and subsequently reduced with LiAlH4. The primary alcohol of 171 was easily eliminated but the NHTs group did not react under exhaustive alkylation/elimination conditions; we have obtained evidence of carbocation formation only when the alkylation was performed with oxonium salt. However, the experimental results could indicated that the hypothetical annulene 41 is not aromatic, because we not find this material in the elimination product, which contained only Me2NTs and polymers. Some theoretical calculations also confirmed that 41 should not be aromatic. In the second part of this work (Part B) are described some studies about the synthesis of the natural product (±)–bakkenolide A (184). The main step of the synthesis was a Diels–Alder reaction between diene 298 and dienophyle 299 under catalysis by NbCl5. The obtained adduct (300) is suitably functionalized and exhibit the appropriate relative stereochemistry for the synthesis of some natural products belonging to the class of eremophilanes and bakkanes, including the bakkenolides. The synthesis of 184 was realized in 8 steps, with a global yield of 13.3%. Finally, some theoretical studies, involving the transition states in cyclizations of the enolates of compounds 286 and 305, were carried out. These studies furnished the theoretical ratios between the epimers 287/288 and 306/307 in good agreement with the experimental results.

Les Hydrocarbures Polycycliques Aromatiques (abréviés PAHs en anglais) sont des synthons importants du point de vue expérimental et théorique en raison de leurs potentielles applications dans des dispositifs optoélectroniques tels que les diodes électroluminescentes organiques, les cellules solaires ou les transistors à effet de champs. Les propriétés des PAHs peuvent être modifiées par l'insertion d'hétéroatomes dans le squelette carboné sp2. Cependant, les exemples de PAHs modifiés par un atome de P sont très rares. Nous avons démontré expérimentalement et théoriquement que l'insertion d'un atome de P en périphérie du PAH a un impact important sur la structure électronique de l'ensemble du système π-étendu, comme le montre l'étude des orbitales frontières HO (Haute Occupée) et BV (Basse Vacante). Ces deux orbitales moléculaires gardent les caractéristiques spatiales du phosphole parent. Cependant l'écart HO-BV est fortement diminué en raison de l'interaction du phosphole et du système π-conjugué bidimensionnel. En effet, la densité électronique est délocalisée sur l'ensemble de la structure carbonée. L'effet de la modification chimique de l'atome de P (dont la complexation par des métaux de transition) sur les propriétés électroniques a été étudié et il a été démontré qu'elle permet de modifier finement les propriétés optiques. L'aromaticité est également un paramètre fondamental des systèmes π-conjugués (poly)cycliques. L'aromaticité locale de chaque cycle des PAHs a été étudiée grâce au calcul du paramètre NICS(1). La modification de l'aromaticité locale de l'hétérocycle à 5 chainons (par variation de l'hétéroatome) a un fort impact sur l'aromaticité locale des cycles adjacents. Il a également été montré que la cyclo-addition sur les PAHs phosphorés a lieu sur l'hétérocycle de plus faible aromaticité et permet de préparer des PAHs inédits. / Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are important targets of experimental and theoretical studies, because of their potential use in optical and electronic devices, such as light-emitting diodes, field-effect transistors or photovoltaics. The properties of PAH systems can be modified by embedding heteroatoms into the sp2 backbone, however for P-modified PAHs, only a few examples exist. During my PhD research, I studied the properties of P-containing extended π-systems. It has been revealed by density functional calculations that the incorporation of phosphorus at the edge position of a PAH has a significant effect on the electronic structure of the entire π-system, as can be seen through the HOMO and LUMO. On the one hand, both orbitals keep the spatial characteristics of the parent heterocycle, on the other hand, the reduced HOMO-LUMO gap compared to the parent heterocycle is a consequence of the interaction between the phosphole unit and the extended aromatic system, as the molecular orbitals are delocalized through the sp2 carbon skeleton. We investigated the effect of chemical modification (including complexation) at the phosphorus atom, and found that due to the variation of the hyperconjugative interaction it can be used to fine-tune the optical properties. Aromaticity is one of the key characteristics of π-systems. During its investigation we have established that the local aromaticities in the investigated ring system could be best described by the NICS(1) values. The modification of the local aromaticity of the five-membered ring (by the variation of the heteroatom) has a significant impact on the local aromaticities of some of the other rings as well. It has been shown that the Diels-Alder cycloaddition of the P-embedded PAHs proceeds at those rings which exhibit the lowest aromaticity.

In this work, a study of a recent approach in the design of light-driven molecular motors is presented. The approach involves enabling part of the motor to obtain aromatic-like properties through photoexcitation, and is found to significantly facilitate the rotary motion by reducing the barriers normally present in the excited-state potential energy surfaces of rotary motors.

Human p-glycoprotein (P-gp) is an ATP-binding cassette transporter that actively transports a diverse set of substrates at the plasma membrane. Specifically, P-gp is expressed most highly at important blood tissue barriers on the lumenal side of endothelial cells and secretory tissues asymmetrically where it provides generalized protection against xenobiotics due to its promiscuous substrate binding pocket. Substrates typically interact with P-gp within the inner leaflet of the plasma membrane before being effluxed through large conformation changes driven by ATP binding and hydrolysis. Since many small molecule drugs are substrates of P-gp and P-gp has the ability to transport chemically and structurally diverse molecules, delivery of bioavailable small molecule therapies and treatment of diseases beyond blood-tissue barriers may be difficult. In cancer, expression of P-gp may confer a multidrug resistance phenotype due to upregulation of the MDR1 gene, which encodes P-gp, in response to treatment with chemotherapies. Treatments of diseases beyond blood-tissue barriers and some cancers may be more complex given the protective role of P-gp coupled with it promiscuous substrate binding site.<br>Many studies of P-gp have been centered around understanding the structure function relationship of how P-gp effluxes small molecules across the plasma membrane. Here we have used a transient Vaccinia virus expression system to rapidly express many mutants of P-gp in human cells for analysis. Transient expression using the Vaccinia system was optimized to produce a large amount of protein while avoiding significant cell death. Optimization of the Vaccinia expression system has also helped to show that changes in P-gp surface expression are not correlated to changes in substrate accumulation within cells expressing P-gp, a topic that has yet to be addressed within the field of P-gp study. Reduced surface expression of P-gp to 68% maintained the same level of reduced cellular accumulation of two substrates, calcein-AM and rhodamine 123, relative to a WT P-gp control. Further study of P-gp mutations revealed a Y998A mutation had a 90% reduction of surface expression but the same reduction of cellular accumulation of rhodamine 123 further supporting that changes in surface expression do not correlate to changes in substrate transport.<br>We then sought to demonstrate how flexibility in transmembrane helix (TMH) 12 of P-gp affected overall stability and transport ability in vitro. TMH 12 in inward facing conformations shows a region of decreased hydrogen bonding in the backbone of the helix leading to a “kink” present in many crystal structures of C. elegans and mouse P-gp as well as in an occluded structure of human P-gp. Outward facing crystal structures of C. elegans, mouse, and human P-gp show TMH 12 where the backbone of the helix is fully hydrogen bonded and ordered. The change in hydrogen bonding pattern and the presence of the kink in TMH 12 suggest the importance of flexibility in the function of TMH 12. Clustal Omega was used to align the primary structure of P-gp between 8 species and a conserved sequence of 996-PDYAKA-1001 was identified aligning with the kink observed in crystallographic data. The kinked nature of this region led to our development of a rigid poly-alanine mutation and a flexible poly-glycine mutation based on the propensity of these amnio acids to form helices. The more flexible poly-glycine mutation obtained no significant transport while the poly-alanine mutation maintained some ability to transport fluorescent substrate relative to a WT control. Crosslinking of the nucleotide binding domains (NBDs) revealed a decrease of NBD dimerization likely correlating to decreased transport. Thus, some degree of flexibility within the kink region is critical for substrate transport as rigid and flexible mutations of this region abrogate transport of fluorescent substrates.<br>While the substrate binding pocket it located towards the interior of P-gp within the lipid bilayer, it has been theorized that substrates may interact with P-gp at the lipid-protein interface of the inner leaflet near portals for substrate entry formed by pairs of helices either side of the protein. To test this hypothesis, aromatic residues on TMH 12 and adjacent elbow helix 2 near the interface region of the inner leaflet, that have also been observed to interact with a cyclic peptide in a crystal structure of P-gp, were mutated to alanine. Y998, on TMH 12, was shown to interact with the cyclic peptide and is ideally located at the protein-lipid interface near a surface formed by elbow helix 2 and TMH 9 and was observed to have the largest effect on substrate accumulation. Accumulation of fluorescent substrates, relative to WT P-gp, was increased though not all substrates were affected similarly. No increase of accumulation was observed with rhodamine 123 while accumulation of BD-prazosin increased 65% relative to WT P-gp. It is to be expected that the large diversity of substrates recognized by P-gp would interact preferentially with carrying residues at the protein-lipid interface similar to observations of substrate binding at the substrate binding pocket. Variability in accumulation signifies that substrates do interact with P-gp at the lipid-protein interface and substrates interact differently at this interface similarly to substrate interaction at the substrate biding pocket.<br>

京都大学 / 0048 / 新制・課程博士 / 博士(理学) / 甲第19524号 / 理博第4184号 / 新制||理||1601(附属図書館) / 32560 / 京都大学大学院理学研究科化学専攻 / (主査)教授 大須賀 篤弘, 教授 依光 英樹, 教授 丸岡 啓二 / 学位規則第4条第1項該当 / Doctor of Science / Kyoto University / DGAM

京都大学 / 0048 / 新制・課程博士 / 博士(理学) / 甲第20927号 / 理博第4379号 / 新制||理||1629(附属図書館) / 京都大学大学院理学研究科化学専攻 / (主査)教授 大須賀 篤弘, 教授 丸岡 啓二, 教授 依光 英樹 / 学位規則第4条第1項該当 / Doctor of Science / Kyoto University / DGAM

京都大学 / 新制・課程博士 / 博士(理学) / 甲第24441号 / 理博第4940号 / 新制||理||1706(附属図書館) / 京都大学大学院理学研究科化学専攻 / (主査)准教授 齊藤 尚平, 教授 依光 英樹, 教授 畠山 琢次 / 学位規則第4条第1項該当 / Doctor of Science / Kyoto University / DGAM

Nonalternant aromatic π-electron systems show promises for surface functionalization due to their unusual electronic structure. Based on our previous experiences for metal surfaces, we investigate the adsorption structures, adsorption dynamics and bonding characteristics of azulene and its alternant aromatic isomer naphthalene on the Si(001) surface. Using a combination of density functional theory, ab initio molecular dynamics, reaction path sampling and bonding analysis with the energy decomposition analysis for extended systems, we show that azulene shows direct adsorption paths into several, strongly bonded chemisorbed final structures with up to four covalent carbon–silicon bonds which can be described in a donor–acceptor and a shared-electron bonding picture nearly equivalently. Naphthalene also shows these tetra-σ-type bonding structures in accordance with an earlier study. But the adsorption path is pseudo-direct here with a precursor intermediate bonded via one aromatic ring and strong indications for a narrow adsorption funnel. The four surface-adsorbate bonds formed lead for both adsorbates to a strong corrugation and a loss of aromaticity.

The dissertation covers three major topics: metal-assisted aromaticity, synthetic approaches to tailor donor-acceptor supramolecular stacks, and photoluminescence properties of cyclic trinuclear complexes (CTCs) of d10 metals. First, multiple theoretical approaches are adapted to discuss in detail the origin of aromaticity of CTCs, putting forward a metal-assisted aromaticity model. Next are the discoveries of donor-acceptor stacked CTC–CTC' complexes from both experimental and computational perspectives, reporting multiple novel crystallography-determined structures and revealing their pertinent intermolecular ground-state charge transfer. The spontaneous binding behavior is also determined by UV-vis and NMR titrations and rationalized as the cooperation of multiple supramolecular interactions, including metallophilicity, electrostatic attraction, and dispersion. The last part includes systematic investigations of photoluminescence properties of halogen-metal-bonded CTCs and sandwich-like cation–π-bonded heptanuclear clusters based on CTCs. The cooperative effects of metal-centered conformation, the heavy-atom and relativistic effects from both the halogen and metal atoms play complementary roles in the phosphorescence process to promote the inter-system crossing and radiative transitions.

Polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are contaminants synthesized through incomplete combustion of carbon based substances. PAHs are known to be photodynamic and toxicity increases exponentially when in contact with ultraviolet radiation (UV). The effect of UV absent recovery periods and potential for latent toxicity during photo-induced toxicity are previously unknown and are not included within the toxicity model. Results of equal interval tests further support the current reciprocity model as a good indicator of PAH photo-induced toxicity. Interval test results also indicate a possible presence of time-dependent toxicity and recovery thresholds and should be included into toxicity risk assessments. Moreover, results of latent effects assays show that latent mortality is a significant response to PAH photo-induced toxicity and should be included into toxicity risk assessments. The present research demonstrates that UV exposure time rate is a significant driving force of PAH photo-induced toxicity.