A biocompatible redox MRI probe based on a Mn( ii )/Mn( iii ) porphyrin
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- After several extractions of the crude with dichloromethane/water, the organic layer was dried with anhydrous sodium sulfate and concentrated under vacuum giving 3 in 82% yield (Scheme 1).
- The absence of the sharp sextet characteristic of the free aqueous Mn2+ cation even at a very high amplification, led to the conclusion that the MnIII-3 sample was free of aqueous Mn2+ .
- If some MnII-3 were present in the sample, a broad signal at giso ~2.0 would be observable at room temperature,62 which was not the case.
Results and Discussion
- Synthesis of the biocompatible porphyrin-based probes Reagents and conditions: i) DMF, NaH, room temperature, 2h; ii) acetic acid/sodium acetate, Mn(II)acetate tetrahydrate, 80ºC, 2h.
- In order to obtain free base porphyrin 2, nucleophilic aromatic substitution of 1 using mono methyl protected polyethylene glycol with Mw = ~500 g/mol (PEG500) was performed, in DMF as solvent and NaH as base, at room temperature for two hours.
- The product was obtained in 65% yield, after purification, and fully characterized by 1H, 19F NMR spectroscopy and ESI-FIA-TOF mass spectrometry (see Figs. 1, S1, S2 and S3, ESI).
Proton and 19F NMR
- The proton NMR spectrum of MnIII-3 in CDCl3 (Fig. S6a) shows a broad signal at -22.76 ppm corresponding to the -pyrrole protons, characteristic of MnIII high-spin meso-porphyrins.
- 63, 64 The PEG chain CH2 protons at 3.66 ppm are unshifted and hardly broadened relative to the signal at 3.65 ppm for free PEG due to their long distance from the paramagnetic center.
- This set of signals corresponds to the fluorine atoms at the meta positions of the meso-phenyl groups in the five possible combinations of the chain lengths of the four polydisperse PEG chains with n = 10- 11.
- The broad signal around -126.2 ppm results from the overlap of the broader signals of the fluorine atoms at the ortho position, which are closer to the metal center.
- 65, 66 Upon reduction of MnIII-3 to MnII-3, all the 19F resonances are completely broadened out, in accordance with the efficient paramagnetic relaxation of MnII (Fig. S6c).
Relaxivity studies
- The relaxation properties have been investigated for both the oxidized MnIII and the reduced MnII form of the porphyrin complex 3. MnII-3 was obtained by adding 30 equivalents of ascorbic acid to the MnIII analogue.
- Full conversion of MnIII-3 to MnII-3 was evidenced by recording UV-Vis spectra before the relaxivity measurements.
- The NMRD profiles recorded at 25 °C for the reduced and for the oxidized form are presented in Fig.
Conclusions
- A new water-soluble fluorinated porphyrin derivative conjugated with PEG chains was synthesized.
- Interestingly, 19F NMR resonances of MnIII-3 are relatively sharp which could open further possibilities to exploit such complexes as paramagnetic 19F NMR probes.93.
- The present MnII/MnIII-porphyrin couple satisfies many of the criteria required for a redox imaging probe: good water solubility, biocompatibility, non-toxicity, thermodynamic and kinetic stability in both metal oxidation states, a redox half-cell potential accessible to biologically relevant reducing agents with fast kinetics (adapted to the imaging time scale), and a strong “turn on” relaxivity response upon reduction.
- 80, 81 Therefore, the role of ascorbic acid should not be ignored either in maintaining the extracellular redox state.
- Furthermore, MRI quantification of ascorbate could be also achieved by separating the effect of the in vivo concentration of the probe from the redox effect on the observed contrast.
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