Synthesis and characterization of a novel alkoxy substituted gold(III) phthalocyanine

Cemre Bilal, Altuǧ Mert Sevim, Ahmet Gül*

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Abstract

Gold(III) compounds have long been investigated for anti-cancer treatment. However, clinical use has often been hampered by their poor stability in solution. In the design of physiologically stable anticancer gold (III) complexes, promising tetrapyrrole derivatives such as phthalocyanines are rarely studied. In this work, a novel soluble symmetrical gold-(III) phthalocyanine (AuPc) complex bearing four pentyloxy terminal moieties was prepared from metal-free phthalocyanine precursor in dioxane in the presence of K[AuCl4] and sodium acetate/acetic acid buffer. The new gold(III) complex obtained from this metallation was characterized by using elemental analyses, UV-Vis, FTIR, 1H NMR and mass spectroscopic data. The aggregative properties of the novel compound were.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)10-12
Number of pages3
JournalInorganic Chemistry Communications
Volume69
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jul 2016

Bibliographical note

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Funding

This work was supported by the Research Fund of the Technical University of Istanbul (Grant number 38097 ). AG thanks Turkish Academy of Sciences (TUBA) for partial support.

FundersFunder number
Technical University of Istanbul38097

    Keywords

    • Aggregation
    • Gold
    • Metallation
    • Pentyloxy
    • Phthalocyanine

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