Part I. Cytochrome c oxidase active-site modeling: Synthesis and characterization of new unsymmetrical tris(imidazole- and pyridine-appended) picket-fence porphyrins and their metal complexes. Part II. Toward fullerene-based radiopharmaceuticals: High-yield neutron activation of endohedral holmium-165 metallofullerenes

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dc.contributor.advisorWilson, Lon J.
dc.creatorThrash, Thomas Pennix
dc.date.accessioned2018-12-03T18:32:01Z
dc.date.available2018-12-03T18:32:01Z
dc.date.issued1999
dc.description.abstractPart I . Two new unsymmetrical picket-fence porphyrin ligands 1 and 2 and their metal complexes have been prepared as potentially improved structural models for the binuclear (Fe/Cu) Cytochrome c Oxidase (C c O) active site. 1 and 2 have a naphthyl porphyrin superstructure which has been specifically designed to confer long-term configurational stability and allow synthetic manipulations to be easily performed without fear of atropisomer interconversions. The compounds also incorporate a covalently-linked, axially-offset tris(heterocycle) coordination site for a copper ion, like that found in the native C c O enzyme. Monometallic complexes [M = Zn(II), Ni(II), Cu(II), Fe(III)] of the imidazole- and pyridine-appended porphyrin ligands have been prepared and fully characterized. Only the Fe(III) hydroxide porphyrin complex reacted further with Cu(II) salts to form a heterobinuclear species of as yet unestablished structure. The unexpected difficulty of forming binuclear species is attributed to the conformational flexibility of the OCH 2 spacer in 1 and 2 , which presumably does not encourage a favorable chelation conformation to be assumed. Part II . Endohedral holmium metallofullerenes, 165 Ho x @C 82/84 (x = 1,2), have been prepared by carbon-arc methods and separated from empty fullerenes by HPLC techniques. The 165 Ho metallofullerenes and empty C 60 were then bombarded with neutrons under differing flux conditions to understand the various modes of compound degradation and to maximize yields of activated 166 Ho x @C 82/84 [ 165 Ho(n,γ) 166 No]. C 60 survived irradiation to a fairly high extent (>80%) at total neutron doses of <10 18 n cm –2 (75% thermal neutrons), but fast-neutron damage progressed rapidly thereafter, leaving only a few percent of surviving material. Under identical flux conditions, the metallofullerenes were degraded much more quickly and extensively (<10% survival) than was C 60 . Furthermore, decomposition of the metal lofullerenes was shown to proceed primarily by fast-neutron damage instead of the predicted (n,γ)-metal-atom recoil. Higher percentage thermal-neutron fluxes (96% and 99.7%) gave significantly improved metallofullerene survival (20—30% at total doses of 10 15 –10 16 n cm –2 ), and degradation under these conditions was demonstrated to proceed exclusively through the anticipated metal-recoil pathway. The present study establishes the general feasibility of developing radiopharmaceuticals based on neutron-activated endohedral metallofullerene materials.
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dc.identifier.callnoTHESIS CHEM. 1999 THRASH
dc.identifier.citationThrash, Thomas Pennix. "Part I. Cytochrome c oxidase active-site modeling: Synthesis and characterization of new unsymmetrical tris(imidazole- and pyridine-appended) picket-fence porphyrins and their metal complexes. Part II. Toward fullerene-based radiopharmaceuticals: High-yield neutron activation of endohedral holmium-165 metallofullerenes." (1999) Diss., Rice University. <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/1911/103630">https://hdl.handle.net/1911/103630</a>.
dc.identifier.digital304531719
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/103630
dc.language.isoeng
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dc.subjectChemistry
dc.subjectNuclear chemistry
dc.subjectPharmacology
dc.subjectSurgery
dc.subjectHealth and environmental sciences
dc.subjectPure sciences
dc.subjectCytochrome c oxidase
dc.subjectFullerene-based Holmium-165
dc.subjectMetallofullerenes
dc.subjectNeutron activation
dc.subjectPicket-fence porphyrins
dc.subjectRadiopharmaceuticals
dc.titlePart I. Cytochrome c oxidase active-site modeling: Synthesis and characterization of new unsymmetrical tris(imidazole- and pyridine-appended) picket-fence porphyrins and their metal complexes. Part II. Toward fullerene-based radiopharmaceuticals: High-yield neutron activation of endohedral holmium-165 metallofullerenes
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thesis.degree.departmentChemistry
thesis.degree.disciplineNatural Sciences
thesis.degree.grantorRice University
thesis.degree.levelDoctoral
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophy
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