@phdthesis{Bauch2019, author = {Bauch, Marcel}, title = {Untersuchungen an neuartigen sauerstoffsubstituierten Donoren und Akzeptoren f{\"u}r Singulettsauerstoff}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-42514}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-425140}, school = {Universit{\"a}t Potsdam}, pages = {VI, 196, xiv, A-27}, year = {2019}, abstract = {Im Verlauf dieser Arbeit wurden Aromaten wie Naphthaline und Anthracene mit Singulettsauerstoff, einer reaktiven Form des gew{\"o}hnlichen Sauerstoffs, zu sogenannten Endoperoxiden umgesetzt. Die hier eingesetzten Systeme wurden mit funktionellen Gruppen modifiziert, die {\"u}ber eine Sauerstoffbr{\"u}cke mit dem Aromaten verkn{\"u}pft sind. Die daraus entstandenen Endoperoxide sind meist besonders labil und konnten in dieser Arbeit isoliert und umfassend untersucht werden. Hierbei wurde zum einen das Reaktionsverhalten untersucht. Es konnte gezeigt werden, dass die Aromaten in Abh{\"a}ngigkeit ihrer funktionellen Gruppen unterschiedlich schnell mit Singulettsauerstoff reagieren. Die so ermittelten Reaktivit{\"a}ten wurden zus{\"a}tzlich durch theoretische Berechnungen gest{\"u}tzt. Die resultierenden Endoperoxide wurden unter verschiedenen Bedingungen wie erh{\"o}hter Temperatur oder einem sauren bzw. basischen Milieu auf ihre Stabilit{\"a}t hin untersucht. Dabei konnte gezeigt werden, dass die auf Naphthalinen basierenden Endoperoxiden den gebundenen Singulettsauerstoff in guten Ausbeuten oft schon bei sehr niedrigen Temperaturen (-40 bis 0 °C) freisetzen. Diese Verbindungen k{\"o}nnen daher als milde Quellen dieser reaktiven Sauerstoffspezies eingesetzt werden. Weiterhin konnten bei den Anthracenendoperoxiden Zerfallsmechanismen aufgekl{\"a}rt und andere reaktive Sauerstoffspezies wie Wasserstoffperoxid oder Pers{\"a}uren nachgewiesen werden. Zu den Modifikationen der Aromaten geh{\"o}ren auch Glucosereste. Dadurch k{\"o}nnten sich die hier hergestellten Endoperoxide als vielversprechende Verbindungen in der Krebstherapie herausstellen, da Krebszellen deutlich st{\"a}rker als gesunde Zellen kohlenhydratreiche Verbindungen f{\"u}r ihren Stoffwechsel ben{\"o}tigen. Bei der Spaltung von Endoperoxiden mit Glucosesubstituenten werden ebenfalls reaktive Sauerstoffspezies frei, die so zum Zelltod f{\"u}hren k{\"o}nnten.}, language = {de} } @article{BauchFudickarLinker2021, author = {Bauch, Marcel and Fudickar, Werner and Linker, Torsten}, title = {Stereoselective [4+2] Cycloaddition of Singlet Oxygen to Naphthalenes Controlled by Carbohydrates}, series = {Molecules : a journal of synthetic chemistry and natural product chemistry}, volume = {16}, journal = {Molecules : a journal of synthetic chemistry and natural product chemistry}, number = {4}, publisher = {MDPI}, address = {Basel}, issn = {1420-3049}, doi = {10.3390/molecules26040804}, pages = {17}, year = {2021}, abstract = {Stereoselective reactions of singlet oxygen are of current interest. Since enantioselective photooxygenations have not been realized efficiently, auxiliary control is an attractive alternative. However, the obtained peroxides are often too labile for isolation or further transformations into enantiomerically pure products. Herein, we describe the oxidation of naphthalenes by singlet oxygen, where the face selectivity is controlled by carbohydrates for the first time. The synthesis of the precursors is easily achieved starting from naphthoquinone and a protected glucose derivative in only two steps. Photooxygenations proceed smoothly at low temperature, and we detected the corresponding endoperoxides as sole products by NMR. They are labile and can thermally react back to the parent naphthalenes and singlet oxygen. However, we could isolate and characterize two enantiomerically pure peroxides, which are sufficiently stable at room temperature. An interesting influence of substituents on the stereoselectivities of the photooxygenations has been found, ranging from 51:49 to up to 91:9 dr (diastereomeric ratio). We explain this by a hindered rotation of the carbohydrate substituents, substantiated by a combination of NOESY measurements and theoretical calculations. Finally, we could transfer the chiral information from a pure endoperoxide to an epoxide, which was isolated after cleavage of the sugar chiral auxiliary in enantiomerically pure form.}, language = {en} } @misc{BauchFudickarLinker2021, author = {Bauch, Marcel and Fudickar, Werner and Linker, Torsten}, title = {Stereoselective [4+2] Cycloaddition of Singlet Oxygen to Naphthalenes Controlled by Carbohydrates}, series = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe}, journal = {Postprints der Universit{\"a}t Potsdam : Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Reihe}, number = {1116}, issn = {1866-8372}, doi = {10.25932/publishup-49336}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-493361}, pages = {19}, year = {2021}, abstract = {Stereoselective reactions of singlet oxygen are of current interest. Since enantioselective photooxygenations have not been realized efficiently, auxiliary control is an attractive alternative. However, the obtained peroxides are often too labile for isolation or further transformations into enantiomerically pure products. Herein, we describe the oxidation of naphthalenes by singlet oxygen, where the face selectivity is controlled by carbohydrates for the first time. The synthesis of the precursors is easily achieved starting from naphthoquinone and a protected glucose derivative in only two steps. Photooxygenations proceed smoothly at low temperature, and we detected the corresponding endoperoxides as sole products by NMR. They are labile and can thermally react back to the parent naphthalenes and singlet oxygen. However, we could isolate and characterize two enantiomerically pure peroxides, which are sufficiently stable at room temperature. An interesting influence of substituents on the stereoselectivities of the photooxygenations has been found, ranging from 51:49 to up to 91:9 dr (diastereomeric ratio). We explain this by a hindered rotation of the carbohydrate substituents, substantiated by a combination of NOESY measurements and theoretical calculations. Finally, we could transfer the chiral information from a pure endoperoxide to an epoxide, which was isolated after cleavage of the sugar chiral auxiliary in enantiomerically pure form.}, language = {en} } @article{BauchKrtitschkaLinker2017, author = {Bauch, Marcel and Krtitschka, Angela and Linker, Torsten}, title = {Photooxygenation of oxygen-substituted naphthalenes}, series = {Journal of physical organic chemistry}, volume = {30}, journal = {Journal of physical organic chemistry}, publisher = {Wiley}, address = {Hoboken}, issn = {0894-3230}, doi = {10.1002/poc.3734}, pages = {6803 -- 6813}, year = {2017}, abstract = {The reaction of oxygen-substituted naphthalenes with singlet oxygen (O-1(2)) has been investigated, and labile endoperoxides have been isolated and characterized at -78 degrees C for the first time. Low-temperature kinetics by UV spectroscopy revealed that alkoxy and silyloxy substituents remarkably increase the rate of photooxygenations compared to 1,4-dimethylnaphthalene, whereas acyloxy-substituted acenes are inert towards O-1(2). The reactivities nicely correlate with HOMO energies and free activation energies, which we determined by density functional theory calculations. The lability of the isolated endoperoxides is due to their very fast back reaction to the corresponding naphthalenes even at -20 degrees C under release of O-1(2), making them to superior sources of this reactive species under very mild conditions. Finally, a carbohydrate-substituted naphthalene has been synthesized, which reacts reversibly with O-1(2) and might be applied for enantioselective oxidations in future work.}, language = {en} } @article{FudickarBauchIhmelsetal.2021, author = {Fudickar, Werner and Bauch, Marcel and Ihmels, Heiko and Linker, Torsten}, title = {DNA-triggered enhancement of singlet oxygen production by pyridinium alkynylanthracenes}, series = {Chemistry - a European journal}, volume = {27}, journal = {Chemistry - a European journal}, number = {54}, publisher = {Wiley-VCH}, address = {Weinheim}, issn = {1521-3765}, doi = {10.1002/chem.202101918}, pages = {13591 -- 13604}, year = {2021}, abstract = {There is an ongoing interest in O-1(2) sensitizers, whose activity is selectively controlled by their interaction with DNA. To this end, we synthesized three isomeric pyridinium alkynylanthracenes 2 o-p and a water-soluble trapping reagent for O-1(2). In water and in the absence of DNA, these dyes show a poor efficiency to sensitize the photooxygenation of the trapping reagent as they decompose due to electron transfer processes. In contrast, in the presence of DNA O-1(2) is generated from the excited DNA-bound ligand. The interactions of 2 o-p with DNA were investigated by thermal DNA melting studies, UV/vis and fluorescence spectroscopy, and linear and circular dichroism spectroscopy. Our studies revealed an intercalative binding with an orientation of the long pyridyl-alkynyl axis parallel to the main axis of the DNA base pairs. In the presence of poly(dA : dT), all three isomers show an enhanced formation of singlet oxygen, as indicated by the reaction of the latter with the trapping reagent. With green light irradiation of isomer 2 o in poly(dA : dT), the conversion rate of the trapping reagent is enhanced by a factor >10. The formation of O-1(2) was confirmed by control experiments under anaerobic conditions, in deuterated solvents, or by addition of O-1(2) quenchers. When bound to poly(dG : dC), the opposite effect was observed only for isomers 2 o and 2 m, namely the trapping reagent reacted significantly slower. Overall, we showed that pyridinium alkynylanthracenes are very useful intercalators, that exhibit an enhanced photochemical O-1(2) generation in the DNA-bound state.}, language = {en} } @article{FudickarLinker2018, author = {Fudickar, Werner and Linker, Torsten}, title = {Release of Singlet Oxygen from Aromatic Endoperoxides by Chemical Triggers}, series = {Angewandte Chemie : a journal of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker ; International edition}, volume = {57}, journal = {Angewandte Chemie : a journal of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker ; International edition}, number = {39}, publisher = {Wiley-VCH}, address = {Weinheim}, issn = {1433-7851}, doi = {10.1002/anie.201806881}, pages = {12971 -- 12975}, year = {2018}, abstract = {The generation of reactive singlet oxygen under mild conditions is of current interest in chemistry, biology, and medicine. We were able to release oxygen from dipyridylanthracene endoperoxides (EPOs) by using a simple chemical trigger at low temperature. Protonation and methylation of such EPOs strongly accelerated these reactions. Furthermore, the methyl pyridinium derivatives are water soluble and therefore serve as oxygen carriers in aqueous media. Methylation of the EPO of the ortho isomer affords the parent form directly without increasing the temperature under very mild conditions. This exceptional behavior is ascribed to the close contact between the nitrogen atom and the peroxo group. Singlet oxygen is released upon this reaction, and can be used to oxygenate an acceptor such as tetramethylethylene in the dark with no heating. Thus, a new chemical source of singlet oxygen has been found, which is triggered by a simple stimulus.}, language = {en} } @article{FudickarLinker2019, author = {Fudickar, Werner and Linker, Torsten}, title = {Theoretical insights into the effect of solvents on the [4+2] cycloaddition of singlet oxygen to substituted anthracenes}, series = {Journal of physical organic chemistry}, volume = {32}, journal = {Journal of physical organic chemistry}, number = {7}, publisher = {Wiley}, address = {Hoboken}, issn = {0894-3230}, doi = {10.1002/poc.3951}, pages = {9}, year = {2019}, abstract = {The [4 + 2] cycloadditions of singlet oxygen to 9,10-diphenylanthracene (1) and the meta and para isomers of 9,10-dipyridylanthracene (2m/p) and 9,10-methoxyphenylanthracene (3m/p) have been studied by density functional calculations in the gas phase at the UB3LYP/6-31G* level and for the first time in solvents at the conductor-like polarizable continuum model (CPCM) UM062X/6-31G* level. The differences in calculated transition state (TS) energies derived from this method are in line with experimentally observed reactivity orders in solution. For the gas-phase reaction, the first TS of the stepwise pathway (TS1) has biradical character, and its energy lies below the energy of the TS of the concerted path (TSconc). In contrast, in the solvent acetonitrile, TS1 resembles a zwitterion and lies significantly higher than the TSconc. Thus, a concerted mechanism applies in solvents, and the energy gap between the TS of the two processes decreases with decreasing polarity. A change from a pyridyl against a methoxyphenyl substituent in the para position causes a maximal reduction of the activation barrier by approximately 1.7 kcal/mol, resulting in a fivefold increased reactivity.}, language = {en} } @article{FudickarLinker2021, author = {Fudickar, Werner and Linker, Torsten}, title = {Photooxygenation of naphthalene}, series = {ChemPhotoChem}, volume = {5}, journal = {ChemPhotoChem}, number = {11}, publisher = {Wiley-VCH}, address = {Weinheim}, doi = {10.1002/cptc.202100097}, pages = {1004 -- 1008}, year = {2021}, abstract = {The photooxygenation of naphthalene to the corresponding endoperoxide (EPO) under various conditions is described. Substantial conversion is only observed at -10 degrees C and after more than two days, indicating that the [4+2] cycloaddition of singlet oxygen to this acene proceeds much more slowly than corresponding reactions of substituted naphthalenes, a rate constant of k = 5.4 +/- 0.3 M(-1)s(-1) was determined by competition kinetics. Another problem is the thermal lability and photochemical cleavage of the naphthalene EPO. We investigated the mechanism of this radical process depending on the light source and sensitizer in comparison to known cyclohexadiene EPO. Thus, bisepoxides and keto epoxides are formed after homolysis of the O-O bond by irradiation with sodium lamps or blue LEDs and subsequent cyclization. This process is accelerated by the sensitizers methylene blue and 9,10-dicyanoanthracene, indicating an electron transfer mechanism. Finally, the cleavage of the peroxidic bond is inhibited with red LEDs, and photooxygenation under such conditions affords 20 \% EPO. Thus, we could demonstrate that contrary to literature statements singlet oxygen does indeed react with naphthalene.}, language = {en} } @article{FudickarLinker2011, author = {Fudickar, Werner and Linker, Torsten}, title = {Reversible Photooxygenation of Alkynylanthracenes chemical generation of singlet oxygen under very mild conditions}, series = {Chemistry - a European journal}, volume = {17}, journal = {Chemistry - a European journal}, number = {49}, publisher = {Wiley-VCH}, address = {Weinheim}, issn = {0947-6539}, doi = {10.1002/chem.201102230}, pages = {13661 -- 13664}, year = {2011}, language = {en} } @article{FudickarLinker2006, author = {Fudickar, Werner and Linker, Torsten}, title = {Imaging by sensitized oxygenations of photochromic anthracene films}, series = {Chemistry - a European journal}, volume = {12}, journal = {Chemistry - a European journal}, publisher = {WILEY-VCH}, address = {Weinheim}, issn = {0947-6539}, doi = {10.1002/chem.200600387}, pages = {9276 -- 9283}, year = {2006}, abstract = {The aliphatic anthracene compound 1 and the oligomeric anthracene 2 were synthesized. Thin films of 1 and 2 mixed with the sensitizers tetraphenylporphyrin (TPP) and methylene blue (MB) were irradiated with visible light in air. Upon formation of singlet oxygen, the anthracene units were converted quantitatively to the corresponding endoperoxides. Heating of the irradiated samples afforded the parent anthracenes with high yields. Here, we demonstrate that the kinetics and reversibility of this reaction strongly depend on the microenvironment of the anthracene groups in the two compounds. The photooxidation of thin films of I is accompanied by interesting changes in the morphology of the film and allows the first application of 1 as a nondestructive negative-tone photo-resist for lithography and as an oxidizing ink. The morphology of 2 remained unchanged after photooxidation as a result of the stabilizing oligomer backbone. This stabilizing effect significantly improves the photochromic performance of 2. The reversibility of the photooxidation is very high (> 90\%) for oligomeric films of 2 after several cycles of irradiation and beating. Decomposition of the anthracene and a loss of the activity of the sensitizer diminish slightly the performance of the monomeric species.}, language = {en} }