- Title
- Photodynamic anticancer and antimicrobial activities of π-extended BODIPY dyes and cationic mitochondria-targeted porphyrins
- Creator
- Chiyumba, Choonzo Nachoobe
- ThesisAdvisor
- Mack, John, 1966-
- ThesisAdvisor
- Nyokong, Tebello
- Subject
- Dyes and dyeing Chemistry
- Subject
- Mitochondria
- Subject
- Cancer Chemotherapy
- Subject
- Porphyrins
- Subject
- Molecules Models
- Subject
- Photochemotherapy
- Date
- 2022-10-14
- Type
- Academic theses
- Type
- Master's theses
- Type
- text
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/362785
- Identifier
- vital:65362
- Description
- Cancer is among the most devastating diseases and is mainly caused by gene mutation. This could be hereditary, or the mutation could be stimulated due to a lifestyle one lives, such as smoking, which induces lung cancer. The high morbidity rates of cancer are attributed to it being metastatic. The relatively poor physicochemical properties of existing drugs have caused treatment to be ineffective. Photofrin®, Foscan®, and Photogem® are some of the porphyrin-based derivatives approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use in photodynamic therapy (PDT). Despite having such drugs, the quest to find better cancer drugs is still ongoing and 4,4-difluoro-4-bora-3a,4a-diaza-s-indacene (BODIPY) dyes are among the molecules that are being studied as potential photosensitisers (PS) in PDT. However, these molecules suffer from poor solubility and ineffective generation of singlet oxygen, the main ingredient in PDT treatment. Furthermore, photosensitisers used in PDT face a problem with hypoxic conditions associated with cancer cells, which causes the generation of singlet oxygen to be relatively low. The PS also suffer from the untargeted treatment, increasing their toxicity. Therefore, the main aim of this study was to improve the bioavailability of BODIPY dyes. Thus, a series of BODPIY dyes were synthesised with hydrogen bond accepting atoms and heavy atoms that enhance singlet oxygen generation. Additionally, to override hypoxia conditions, porphyrins with mitochondria targeting properties were synthesised since it has been well established that the mitochondria will always have a decent amount of oxygen in cancerous cells. When employed as PS in PDT studies, these molecules have better cytotoxic abilities than BODIPY dyes, and this potency was credited to their mitochondria targeting ability and efficient singlet oxygen generation. Finally, this study reports the synthesis of di- and mono-substituted BODIPY dyes with improved solubility and porphyrins substituted with triphenyl phosphine, a mitochondria targeting moiety. On the other hand, the work further illustrates the synthesis of β-substituted cationic porphyrin with mitochondria targeting properties.
- Description
- Thesis (MSc) -- Faculty of Science, Chemistry, 2022
- Format
- computer, online resource, application/pdf, 1 online resource (183 pages), pdf
- Publisher
- Rhodes University, Faculty of Science, Chemistry
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Chiyumba, Choonzo Nachoobe
- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons "Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike" License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/)
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