L'évolution récente de la science écologique et durable nécessite des catalyseurs puissants, sophistiquées et dotés de propriétés spécifiques et accordables.Les catalyseurs bimétalliques qui contiennent deux ou plusieurs sites pour l'activation coopérative de substrats réagissant sur des centres métalliques voisins selon certaines conditions. Un certain nombre de squelettes, spécialement conçus pour générer des complexes exclusivement bimétalliques, ont été développés autour d'échafaudages de méthanodibenzodioxocine et de benzofurobenzofurane, y compris un certain nombre de ligands qui agissent comme donneurs de monophosphine dans deux centres métalliques différents. Ces ligands génèrent des espèces dinucléaires de manière fiable, mais les modes de coordination résultants sont imprévisibles.Ce travail de thèse présente la synthèse de ligands de tétraphosphine, dans lesquels des bras chélatants sont disponibles pour coordonner chacun des deux centres métalliques. La synthèse implique la préparation de 4,8-bis (sec-phosphines) de rac-6,12-méthano-12H-dibenzo [1,3] dioxocines et leur conversion en phosphines doublement chélatantes par l'élaboration de chaque fonctionnalité sec-phosphine en Les dérivés di (R) phosphinopropyle correspondants (R = Ph, Cy). Une étude de chimie de coordination préliminaire indique que l'environnement de coordination est fourni par ces ligands tétraphosphine binucléaires rigides. C’est ainsi que la préparation des complexes bimétalliques de PdII, PtII aurait été réalisé. Chacune des deux molécules de bras chélatants serait coordonnée à un métal. Enfin, des études préliminaires sur l'utilisation des ligands tétraphosphine comme supports pour la chimie de l'hydroformylation ont été réalisées. Les résultats actuels ne permettent pas encore d'établir définitivement un comportement coopératif entre les deux centres métalliques. / : Recent developments in green and sustainable science require more powerful, sophisticated and tunable catalysts. Bimetallic catalysts contain two or more sites for the activation of substrates and, under optimal circumstances, can allow cooperative activation of reacting substrates on neighboring metal centers. A number of backbones, designed specifically to generate exclusively bimetallic complexes have previously been developed around methanodibenzodioxocin and benzofurobenzofuran scaffolds, including a number of ligands that act as monophosphine donors to two different metal centers. These ligands generate dinuclear species reliably, but the resulting coordination modes are unpredictable. This work presents the synthesis of tetraphosphine ligands, wherein chelating arms are available to coordinate each of the two metal centers. The synthesis involves preparation of 4,8-bis(sec-phosphines) of rac- 6,12-methano-12H-dibenzo[l,3] dioxocins and their conversion into doubly chelating phosphines through the elaboration of each sec- phosphine functionality into the corresponding di(R)phosphinopropyl derivatives (R= Ph, Cy). A preliminary coordination chemistry study indicates that the tightly defined coordination environment provided by these rigid binucleating tetraphosphine ligands under study allowed bimetallic complexes of PdII, PtII to be prepared, in which each of the two chelating arms molecule coordinates to one metal. Finally outline studies on the use of the tetraphosphine ligands as supports for hydroformylation chemistry were performed. The current results do not yet allow cooperative behavior between the two metal centers to be definitively established.

A radioisotope of rubidium, 82Rb is used in positron emission tomography. Neutral crown ethers and cryptands have been studied as carrier ligands for Rb+ but exhibit low ion carrying capacity and high toxicity. The present study involved investigating a lariat ether containing an ionizable phosphoryl moiety and a lipophilic sidearm. This kind of molecule is expected to be ionized at physiological pH. It should be able to form neutral complexes with Rb+ and may be able to cross the blood-brain barrier. Molecular modeling of crown ether-alkali metal cation complexes indicates that a macrocycle containing more than 18 but less than 21 atoms can incorporate Rb+ ion in its cavity. Molecular modeling of some of the complexes of phospho-lariat ethers with rubidium using the Spartan'02 software package revealed that a lariat ether containing 20 member macrocycle will probably form the most stable complex with Rb+ion. Also, it was thought that more flexibility could be imparted to the macrocycle if it contains propyleneoxy units instead of ethyleneoxy units which form most crown ethers. Molecular modeling of two phospho-lariat ethers with 16 and 20 membered rings revealed that 20 membered macrocycle may be a better choice due to the side arm's participation in the complexation with Rb+ to a greater extent. Molecular modeling was used to find the bond angles and bond distances in this molecule. The synthesis to obtain ionizable phospho-bipodands was performed using subsequent benzylation, phosphorylation and hydrogenation steps. The characterization of products was done using HPLC, NMR and ESI-MS techniques. The synthetic scheme used was demonstrated to be plausible and could be used to obtain ionizable phoshobipodands. Extraction using solid phase anion exchange columns proved to be a good clean up procedure for obtaining pure bipodand. This bipodand could be used as a precursor for synthesizing an ionizable 20 membered lariat ether.

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Some organophosphorus (OP) esters induce a central-peripheral distal axonopathy called organophosphorus ester-induced delayed neurotoxicity (OPIDN). In the chicken model neurological deficits and microscopic lesions develop 7-21 days after exposure. Neurotoxic esterase (NTE) is thought to be the initial target in OPIDN. Evidence indicates that neuropathic OP esters have to bind NTE and chemically ?age? for OPIDN induction. It was hypothesized that phenyl saligenin phosphate (PSP), a neuropathic OP ester that essentially irreversibly inhibits NTE as it undergoes the chemical aging process, results in changes in spinal cord gene expression that do not occur with phenylmethylsulfonyl fluoride (PMSF), a non-neuropathic compound that inhibits NTE without aging. This hypothesis was tested in Gallus gallus in experiments designed to detect differences in spinal cord gene expression between PSP, PMSF and vehicle-treated birds 24 hours after exposure. Two approaches were used. Targeted display was developed and used to screen approximately 15000 gel bands. Three candidate genes were identified by targeted display. One, designated P1 has 100% homology with expressed sequence tag pgp1n.pk010.m23, another, P2, is homologous to human KIAA1307, and a third, P3, is unidentified. Northern blotting was used to measure spinal cord expression of a-tubulin and other genes previously reported to be differentially expressed following exposure to di-isopropryl phosphorofluoridate, another agent causing OPIDN. Only expression of a-tubulin was altered in PSP-treated hens. Time course experiments were undertaken to determine spinal cord expression changes of P1, P2, P3 and a-tubulin transcripts at 12, 24, 36 and 48 hours post-exposure. Findings indicated decreases and increases, respectively, of P1 (22%, p=0.0011) and P2 (26%, p=0.0055) transcripts at 12 hours in PSP treated hen spinal cord compared to DMSO controls. An ~2.5 kb a-tubulin transcript was decreased across most time points with maximum change at 48 hours (33%, p=0.0479); an ~4.5 kb a-tubulin transcript was upregulated at 12 hours (38%, p=0.0125) and down regulated at 48 hours (28%, p=0.0576). Responses to PMSF were different than responses to PSP. Spinal cord in-situ hybridization experiments revealed, 1.) mainly neuronal expression of P1, P2 and a-tubulin transcripts, and, 2.) decreased expression of neuronal P1 and a-tubulin transcripts at 12 and 48 hours, respectively. Results indicate that PSP can induce changes in gene expression distinct from those induced with the non-neuropathic NTE inhibitor, PMSF. However, expression changes were low in frequency and magnitude, and their mechanistic importance remains to be fully established. / Ph. D.

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