硼中子捕获疗法中使用的1,2-C2B10H12异腈衍生物的结构和电子特性

利用密度泛函方法在B3LYP/6-31G(d)水平上对1,2-C2B10H12的两种异腈类衍生物的结构特性进行了研究. 结果表明, 1,2-C2B10H11NC的活性较强; 1,2-C2B10H11NC和1,2-C2B10H11CH2NC可以通过结构中的C4原子与过渡金属原子成键而形成碳硼烷异腈金属配合物. 1,2-C2B10H11NC和1,2-C2B10H11CH2NC的分子极性均比1,2-C2B10H12的弱, 这不利于它们在硼中子捕获疗法中的应用.     

实时直接分析高分辨质谱技术研究碳硼烷类化合物

该文运用高分辨质谱技术对实时直接分析(Direct analysis in real time,DART)离子化条件下碳硼烷化合物的质谱行为进行了研究,对碳硼烷化合物DART高分辨质谱中所得到的同位素峰簇进行了表征与归属。研究结果表明,选取的碳硼烷化合物在DART负离子条件下均能得到较好的质谱信号,这可能与硼笼结构的“缺电性”有关。含10个B原子的碳硼烷化合物形成的离子同位素峰簇信号中,通常情况下相对丰度最高的同位素峰中含2个10B以及8个11B。将碳硼烷化合物高分辨质谱分析的精确m/z数据信息与图谱中同位素峰轮廓分析相结合,是碳硼烷化合物有效的质谱定性分析与表征策略。     

钯催化硼-碳和硼-杂原子键构建一锅法合成双官能团化邻-碳硼烷※

碳硼烷是由碳氢和硼氢顶点组成的笼状分子, 在医药、能源和材料等领域有着重要应用, 但目前在碳硼烷硼顶点引入杂原子取代基的方法还较为有限. 基于此, 本工作从3-碘-邻-碳硼烷出发, 通过钯催化烯基化、金属迁移及后续与杂原子亲核试剂的偶联反应, 一锅法构筑硼碳键和硼杂原子键, 成功实现了一系列新型3-烯基-4-胺基/烷氧基/烷(芳)硫基-邻-碳硼烷衍生物的合成.     

碳硼烷硼氢键选择性官能团化的研究进展

由于独特的三维立体结构、硼含量高、良好的热稳定性和化学稳定性等特点,碳硼烷及其衍生物在材料、催化、医药、超分子和配位化学等领域应用广泛,因此发展高效、高区域选择性的碳硼烷B-H键的官能团化的方法学备受硼化学家的关注。本文对近年来碳硼烷B-H键的官能团化的反应类型及相关反应机理予以论述,希望为后续研究提供可靠的参考。     

碳硼烷硼氢键选择性官能团化的研究进展

由于独特的三维立体结构、硼含量高、良好的热稳定性和化学稳定性等特点,碳硼烷及其衍生物在材料、催化、医药、超分子和配位化学等领域应用广泛,因此发展高效、高区域选择性的碳硼烷B-H键的官能团化的方法学备受硼化学家的关注。本文对近年来碳硼烷B-H键的官能团化的反应类型及相关反应机理予以论述,希望为后续研究提供可靠的参考。     

过渡金属催化硼-氢键活化合成含硼-杂原子键邻碳硼烷衍生物的研究进展

十二顶点碳硼烷是一类含有碳、氢及硼原子的簇合物,具有特殊的热稳定性和化学稳定性,在医药、材料、能源、配位化学及金属有机化学中都得到广泛的应用.近年来,过渡金属催化的碳硼烷直接硼-氢键活化发展迅速,为硼顶点选择性官能团化提供了一系列新的高效路径.总结了利用过渡金属催化硼-氢键活化策略来实现邻碳硼烷硼-硼、硼-氮、硼-氧、硼-硫及硼-卤键构建的研究进展,同时对部分反应机理进行了讨论,并就该研究领域所面临的挑战和发展前景进行了展望.     

一种新型包含平面四配位碳二硼有机化合物的理论研究

采用B3LYP/6-311+G**方法, 研究了一种新型的包含平面四配位碳(ptC)二硼有机化合物C9B2H6的结构、稳定性和振动频率. 计算结果表明, C9B2H6结构的稳定性和两个硼原子的位置有很大关系, 硼原子起给予σ电子和接受π电子的作用. 在C9B2H6的15个异构体中, 最稳定的结构是具有C2v对称性的异构体(1,5), 在异构体(1,5)中, 两个硼原子位于同一个六元环中且与ptC相邻. 而且占据的π轨道说明异构体(1,5)具有10个π电子, 满足4n+2规则. 计算的核独立化学位移(NICS)值显示异构体(1,5)强的芳香性位于C9B2H6的两个三元环而不是两个六元环上.     

碳硼烷衍生物的合成研究进展

综述了碳硼烷衍生物的结构、性质和合成方法。重点介绍了C取代和B取代碳硼烷衍生物的合成方法。并对新型碳硼烷衍生物的合成方法进行了展望。参考文献99篇。     

碳硼烷化学发展之路

碳硼烷分子具有独特的笼状结构,能够表现出三维芳香性和稳定的物理化学性质,这使得碳硼烷不仅能够应用于有机硼化学及金属有机化学,而且在生物学、材料学等领域也有不错的应用前景。本文叙述了碳硼烷化学的发展历史、碳硼烷化合物的结构性质,并简要介绍了碳硼烷近年来在生物医学、发光材料以及催化剂领域的应用,希望对读者了解碳硼烷化学的新进展能够有所帮助。     

14顶点双取代碳硼烷和金属硼烷极化率和二阶超极化率的DFT研究

采用量子化学密度泛函理论(DFT) B3LYP/6-31G(d)方法对14顶点双取代碳硼烷和金属硼烷几何构型进行优化, 结合有限场(FF)方法计算了各体系的极化率和二阶超极化率. 同时金属硼烷中金属原子采用赝势基组进行计算, 讨论基组对计算结果的影响. 结果表明, 14顶点碳硼烷和金属硼烷中碳和金属元素的成键方式不同, 金属硼烷中各原子间距离比碳硼烷中大, 平面偏移角增大. 金属原子的引入有效增加分子的NLO系数, 同时金属硼烷的前线分子轨道能级差比碳硼烷小很多, 金属硼烷材料有可能表现出半导体甚至导体特性, 金属原子采用不同基组对计算结果影响不大.     

Recent Progress in the Development of Solid‐State Luminescent o‐Carboranes with Stimuli Responsivity

o‐Carborane, a cluster compound containing boron and adjacent carbon atoms, displays intriguing luminescent properties. Recently, compounds containing o‐carborane units were found to show suppressed aggregation‐induced quenching and intense solid‐state emission; they also show potential for the development of stimuli‐responsive luminochromic materials. In this Minireview, we introduce three kinds of fundamental photochemical properties: aggregation‐induced emission, twisted intramolecular charge transfer in crystals, and environment‐sensitive excimer formation in solids. Based on these properties, several types of luminochromism, such as thermos‐, vapo‐, and mechanochromism, have been discovered. Based mainly on results from recent studies, we illustrate these mechanisms as well as unique luminescent behaviors of o‐carborane derivatives.     

Tetracoordinate carbon as a nucleophile? Interconversion of carbenium ions with carbonium ions possessing nearly square-pyramidal pentacoordinate carbons

[structure: see text] Quantum chemical calculations (B3LYP and Moeller-Plesset second-order perturbation theory) on carbonium ions containing hypercoordinated carbon atoms in distorted square-pyramidal geometries are described. The importance of overall charge (in addition to the delocalization of a certain number of electrons) for the stability of such structures is explored through calculations on isoelectronic systems containing boron atoms. The effects of alkyl substitution as well as variations in the structure of the linker attached to the C(5) core substructure are explored systematically for a variety of structures that do not have severe geometric constraints that rigidly enforce unusual geometries. In addition, transition structures for reactions involving the intramolecular attack of tetracoordinate carbons on carbenium ion centers were located; in some cases, such carbenium-to-carbonium rearrangement processes (in which tetracoordinate carbon centers act as nucleophiles) are actually both exothermic and accompanied by low activation barriers.     

A Versatile Methodology for the Controlled Synthesis of Photoluminescent High‐Boron‐Content Dendrimers

Fluorescent star‐shaped molecules and dendrimers with a 1,3,5‐triphenylbenzene moiety as the core and 3 or 9 carborane derivatives at the periphery, have been prepared in very good yields by following different approaches. One procedure relies on the nucleophilic substitution of Br groups in 1,3,5‐tris(4‐(3‐bromopropoxy)phenyl)benzene with the monolithium salts of methyl and phenyl‐o‐carborane. The second method is the hydrosilylation reactions on the peripheral allyl ether functions of 1,3,5‐tris(4‐allyloxy‐phenyl)benzene and 1,3,5‐tris(4‐(3,4,5‐trisallyloxybenzyloxy)phenyl)benzene with suitable carboranyl‐silanes to produce different generations of dendrimers decorated with carboranyl fragments. This approach is very versatile and allows one to introduce long spacers between the fluorescent cores and the boron clusters, as well as to obtain a high loading of boron clusters. The removal of one boron atom from each cluster leads to high‐boron‐content water‐soluble macromolecules. Thermogravimetric analyses show a higher thermal stability for the three‐functionalized compounds than for those containing 9 clusters. All compounds exhibit photoluminescent properties at room temperature under ultraviolet irradiation with high quantum yields; these depend on the nature of the cluster and the substituent on the C_cluster. Cyclic voltammetry indicates that there is no electronic communication between the core and the peripheral carboranyl fragments. Due to the high boron content of these molecules, we currently focus our research on their biocompatibility, biodistribution in cells cultures, and potential applications for boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT).     

Recent Progress in the Chemistry of Supercarboranes

The chemistry of boron clusters has been dominated by icosahedral carboranes for over half a century. Only in recent years has significant progress been made in the chemistry of supercarboranes (carboranes with more than 12 vertices). A number of CAd (carbon‐atoms‐adjacent) 13‐ and 14‐vertex carboranes, and CAp (carbon‐atoms‐apart) 13‐vertex carboranes as well as their corresponding 14‐ and 15‐vertex metallacarboranes have been successfully prepared and structurally characterized. This breakthrough relied on the use of CAd nido‐carborane dianions as starting materials. These supercarboranes can undergo single‐electron reduction to give stable supercarborane radical monoanions with [2n+3] framework electrons, and electrophilic substitution reaction to afford hexasubstituted supercarboranes. They can react with nucleophiles to offer monocarba‐closo‐dodecaborate monoanions from cage‐carbon extrusion reactions. Their unique chemical properties make the chemistry of supercarboranes distinct from that of their 12‐vertex analogues. These studies open up new possibilities for the development of polyhedral clusters of extraordinary size. This focus review offers an overview of recent advances in this growing research field.     

In silico carborane docking to proteins and potential drug targets

The presence of boron atoms has made carboranes, C(2)B(10)H(12), attractive candidates for boron neutron capture therapy. Because of their chemistry and possible conjugation with proteins, they can also be used to enhance interactions between pharmaceuticals and their targets and to increase the in vivo stability and bioavailability of compounds that are normally metabolized rapidly. Carboranes are isosteric to a rotating phenyl group, which they can substitute successfully in biologically active systems. A reverse ligand-protein docking approach was used in this work to identify binding proteins for carboranes. The screening was carried out on the drug target database PDTD that contains 1207 entries covering 841 known potential drug targets with structures taken from the Protein Data Bank. First, for validation, the protocol was applied to three crystal structures of proteins in which carborane derivatives are present. Then, the model was applied to systems for which the protein structure is available, but the binding site of carborane has not been reported. These systems were used for further validation of the protocol, while simultaneously providing new insight into the interactions between cage and protein. Finally, the screening was carried out on the database to reveal potential carborane binding targets of interest for biological and pharmacological activity. Carboranes are predicted to bind well to protease and metalloprotease enzymes. Other carborane pharmaceutical targets are also discussed, together with possible protein carriers.     

Substituted carborane-appended water-soluble single-wall carbon nanotubes: new approach to boron neutron capture therapy drug delivery

Substituted C(2)B(10) carborane cages have been successfully attached to the side walls of single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) via nitrene cycloaddition. The decapitations of these C(2)B(10) carborane cages, with the appended SWCNTs intact, were accomplished by the reaction with sodium hydroxide in refluxing ethanol. During base reflux, the three-membered ring formed by the nitrene and SWCNT was opened to produce water-soluble SWCNTs in which the side walls are functionalized by both substituted nido-C(2)B(9) carborane units and ethoxide moieties. All new compounds are characterized by EA, SEM, TEM, UV, NMR, and IR spectra and chemical analyses. Selected tissue distribution studies on one of these nanotubes, {([Na(+)][1-Me-2-((CH(2))(4)NH-)-1,2-C(2)B(9)H(10)][OEt])(n)(SWCNT)} (Va), show that the boron atoms are concentrated more in tumors cells than in blood and other organs, making it an attractive nanovehicle for the delivery of boron to tumor cells for an effective boron neutron capture therapy in the treatment of cancer.     

Synthesis of ether- and carbon-linked polycarboranyl porphyrin dimers for cancer therapies

Porphyrin dimers bearing multiple carborane cages for potential use as sensitizers in boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT) and photodynamic therapy (PDT) were synthesized from protoporphyrin dimethyl ester and characterized. Diastereomeric ether-linked dimers bearing four closo carborane cages (40 boron atoms) were found to be unstable to the acidic conditions necessary for conversion into water-soluble salts. In contrast, the carbon---carbon-linked dimers bearing six icosahedral carboranes (60 boron atoms) were stable to acid and could be isolated as water-soluble sodium salts. In vitro and in vivo studies of these novel molecules are currently under investigation.     

Synthesis and thermal studies of heterocyclic siloxanes containing boron

Eight- and six-membered cycloborasiloxanes containing two and one boron atoms respectively are strained ring compounds which undergo ring opening polymerization and ring–ring transformation reactions on thermolysis. Prolonged heating at 200°C results in volatilization of the cyclic boroxine (PhBO)₃, whereas rapid heating of either compound to 1500°C in an inert atmosphere does not result in loss of boron, but affords instead an amorphous residue containing silicon carbide, boron oxide and carbon. Upon further pyrolysis at 1700°C the final product consists of microcrystalline silicon carbide in which are embedded large crystals of boron carbide.     

Octacoordinate carbons encaged inside carborane clusters: a density functional theory investigation

This work focuses on the computational design and characterization of a novel series of endohedral carborane clusters containing octacoordinate carbon centers. The structural and bonding features and the thermodynamic and kinetic stabilities are discussed extensively based on density functional theory calculations. These nonclassical carboranes are fascinating in structure not only for the octacoordinate carbon center but also for the surrounding carbon and boron ligands with inverted bonding configuration. These endohedral carboranes are higher in energy than the corresponding exohedral isomers due to the high strain in the system. A new stability rule based on the donor-acceptor model is proposed to predict the stability ordering for these carborane isomers. In addition, some of these octacoordinate carboranes might have relatively high kinetic stabilities, which is rather hopeful for the experimental syntheses.     

Synthesis of mono-, di-, tri-, and tetraethyl-o-carboranes by electrophilic alkylation ofo-carborane with ethyl bromide in the presence of AICl3 and their transformations

Optimal conditions for the preparation of 9-ethyl-, 9,12-diethyl, 8,9,12-triethyl-, and 8,9,10,12-tetraethyl-o-carboranes under the action of EtBr on o-carborane in the presence of AICl₃ were determined. The behavior of these o-carborane derivatives towards electrophilic and nucleophilic reagents was studied. The presence of four ethyl groups in positions 8, 9, 10, and 12 of the carborane polyhedron increases the electron density on the boron atoms in positions 4, 5, 7, and II to the point where they are able to enter into reactions of electrophilic substitution, and in positions 3 and 6 to the point that they become resistant to the action of nucleophilic reagents. Reactions of 1,2-dilithium-8,9,10,12-tetraethyl-o-carborane with various electrophilic reagents were studied.Translated fromIzvestiya Akademii Nauk, Seriya Khimicheskaya, No. 11, pp 2755–2763, November, 1996.