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Séminaire Chimie ED459

Redesigning strategies in dendrimer syntheses: an “onion peel” approach

Prof. René Roy (Pharmaqam, Department of Chemistry, UQAM Université du Québec à Montréal, QC, Canada)

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Le Jeudi 04 décembre 2014 à 13h45
UM2, salle de cours SC-25.01

(cette conférence sera présentée en français)

The strategies leading to dendrimer design have been too conservative and restrictive in that chemists have generally used the same repeating units to build dendrimers of higher generations. These approaches have not permitted full controls of their potential biophysical properties. By using: (i) different building blocks in between dendrimer generations in order to expand the scope of their applications; (ii) systematically use the full potential of sugars as multivalent scaffolds together with their inherent diversified stereochemical resources; and (iii) capitalise on the use of functional groups orthogonality, it is possible to change the way dendrimers have been generally constructed. This innovative “onion-peel” approach provides much greater flexibility in the synthetic schemes leading to novel dendrimer architectures and properties. One direct outcome will undoubtedly result in improved water-solubility for biological applications and drug delivery.

For instance, when considering the use of carbohydrates as systematic building blocks toward dendrimer syntheses, their great potential can be readily realised. For instance, trioses, pentoses, hexoses, and even disaccharides represent typical cases of A2B, A3B, A4B, and A7B scaffolds, respectively. Any permutation in their utilization in subsequent dendrimer generation will rapidly lead to an impressive number of surface groups. For example, the use of riboside (an A3B system) as starting residue, around which is linked three glucosides (A4B), will provide 12-surface functionalities at the G1 only. The surface groups can be engineered to any functionalities, including sugar themselves that can be used in a wide range of applications, including antibacterial agents, gene transfections, drug delivery, and biosensors. To theses exciting features, the stereochemical identities of the individual sugar building blocks also constitute further elements of versatility.

In addition, by not using all hydroxyl groups within a given series, an A4B hexose system may become equivalent to a pentose corresponding to an A3B unit. This approach can be strategically used for leaving residual water-soluble OH-groups within the linkage or for the attachment of drugs, probes and the like. Amino acid sugars such as glucosamine and glucuronic acid also represent additional features exploitable for specific applications.

Moreover, the recent photocatalyzed thiol-ene reaction between thiols and alkenes (or alkynes) has been shown to be orthogonal to the base-catalyzed SN2 reaction between the same thiols but with halomethyl carbonylated derivatives, thus opening novel horizons for this efficient chemistry. Several examples of the above strategies will be illustrated.

Contact local IBMM : Dr. Robert Pascal, D.R. (équipe DSBC)

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séminaire

  • Thursday 4 December 2014 from 13:45 to 15:00 -

    Redesigning strategies in dendrimer syntheses: an “onion peel” approach

    Résumé : Séminaire Chimie ED459 – René Roy

    Lieu : UM2, salle SC-25.01


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