This paper describes the thermodynamic study of aqueous solutions of 13,17-di-N-(2-aminoethyl)amide of deuteroporphyrin-IX (DDA) which is considered as a potential red natural dye and a perspective substrate for creating new water-soluble sensitizers for photodynamic therapy (PDT). Solubility of the macrocycle in highly aqueous solutions of hydrochloric acid and standard tetraoxalate buffer has been determined in the temperature range from T=288 K to T=328 K. Solubility values are found to decrease with the temperature in both cases due to the weakening of porphyrin basicity at elevated temperatures. Free energies, enthalpies and entropies of solution have been computed from solubility data via the Clark and Glue equation. Enthalpies and entropies of solution are negative and constant for both cases in the temperatureSolubility and Thermodynamics of Dissolution of 13,17-Di-N-(2-aminoethyl)amide of Deuteroporphyrin-IX
интервале. Отрицательный энтальпийный вклад способствует растворению ДДА, однако, большие отрицатель-ные энтропии процесса приводят к неблагоприятному изменению свободной энергии в целом.Ключевые слова: Дейтеропорфирин IX, водные растворы, кислотно-основные взаимодействия, растворимость, термодинамика растворения.
IntroductionNatural porphyrins and related compounds are known to be of great interest for medicine as fluorescence diagnostic labels and drugs for an earlier treatment of different tumors and bacterial infections.[1,2] They also provide an extremely versatile synthetic base for a variety of industrial applications such as the development of non-linear optical materials, natural dyes, different sensors and catalysts etc.[3] Many application fields mentioned above require the information about the macrocycle behavior in a liquid phase at different temperatures and concentrations. Solubility values appear to be one of the most important quantities in this sense. These are, however, scarce and restricted by several organic solvents or their mixtures with water mostly at the standard temperature of 298 K. [4][5][6] During the last several years we have been involved in the intensive and continuing study (see, for example, [7][8][9] and references therein) dealing with the behavior of natural macrocycles in individual and mixed organic solvents modeling their biological environment. Here, we focus on thermodynamics of diamino derivative of deuteroporphyrin-IX in highly aqueous acidic solutions, where protonation of the macrocycle and functional amino groups provides sufficient solubility in water to employ the solute as a natural dye for synthetic or semi-synthetic fabrics. This porphyrin can be also used as perspective substrate to synthesize new hydrophilic water-soluble sensitizers for PDT using a quaternization reaction.
Experimental13,17-Di-N-(2-aminoethyl)amide of deuteroporphyrin-IX (1) was synthesized using nucleophilic substitution reaction between previously obtained deuteroporphyrin-IX dimethyl ester (2) and a freshly distilled 70 % aqueous solution of ethylenediamine. 10 ml of an et...