• Development of thermochemiluminescence-based sensitive probes: synthesis, optimization, and characterization of c2- and c7-substituted acridine-containing 1,2-dioxetanes
  • Moroni, Giada <1992>

Subject

  • CHIM/01 Chimica analitica

Description

  • After initial efforts in the late 1980s, the interest in thermochemiluminescence (TCL) as an effective detection technique has gradually faded due to some drawbacks, such as the high temperatures required to trigger the light emission and the relatively low intensities, which determined a poor sensitivity. Recent advances made with the adoption of variably functionalized 1,2-dioxetanes as innovative luminophores, have proved to be a promising approach for the development of reagentless and ultrasensitive detection methods exploitable in biosensors by using TCL compounds as labels, as either single molecules or included in modified nanoparticles. In this PhD Thesis, a novel class of N-substituted acridine-containing 1,2-dioxetanes was designed, synthesized, and characterized as universal TCL probes endowed with optimal emission-triggering temperatures and higher detectability particularly useful in bioanalytical assays. The different decorations introduced by the insertion of both electron donating (EDGs) and electron withdrawing groups (EWGs) at the 2- and 7-positions of acridine fluorophore was found to profoundly affect the photophysical properties and the activation parameters of the final 1,2-dioxetane products. Challenges in the synthesis of 1,2-dioxetanes were tackled with the recourse to continuous flow photochemistry to achieve the target parent compound in high yields, short reaction time, and easy scalability. Computational studies were also carried out to predict the olefins reactivity in the crucial photooxygenation reaction as well as the final products stability. The preliminary application of TCL prototype molecule has been performed in HaCaT cell lines showing the ability of these molecules to be detected in real biological samples and cell-based assays. Finally, attempts on the characterization of 1,2-dioxetanes in different environments (solid state, optical glue and nanosystems) and the development of bioconjugated TCL probes will be also presented and discussed.

Date

  • 2022-06-16

Type

  • Doctoral Thesis
  • PeerReviewed

Format

  • application/pdf

Identifier

urn:nbn:it:unibo-28688

Moroni, Giada (2022) Development of thermochemiluminescence-based sensitive probes: synthesis, optimization, and characterization of c2- and c7-substituted acridine-containing 1,2-dioxetanes, [Dissertation thesis], Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna. Dottorato di ricerca in Chimica , 34 Ciclo. DOI 10.48676/unibo/amsdottorato/10203.

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