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Liu J, Du W, Chen B, Tian Y, Tan J, Feng Z, Tian X. Correlative Super-resolution Optical and Electron Microscopic Imaging of Intracellular Ribosomal RNA by a Terpyridine Iridium(III) Complex. ACS Sens 2024. [PMID: 38830243 DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.4c00232] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2024]
Abstract
Ribosomal RNA (rRNA) plays a vital role in binding amino acids together, which dictates the primary structure of a protein. Visualization of its intracellular distribution and dynamics during protein synthesis enables a better understanding of the correlated biological essence. However, appropriate tools targeting live cell rRNA that are capable of multimodal imaging at the nanoscale are still lacking. Here, we rationally designed a series of terpyridine ammonium iridium(III) complexes, one of which is capable of selectively labeling rRNA in living cells. Its metal core and photostable nature allow further super-resolution STED imaging of rRNA found on the rough endoplasmic reticulum at a ∼40 nm resolution that is well correlated under correlative light and electron microscopy (CLEM). Interestingly, the Ir(III) complex demonstrated rRNA dynamics in living cells while boosting protein synthesis at the nanoscale. Our work offers a versatile tool to visualize rRNA synchronously under optical and electron microscopy, which provides a better understanding of rRNA evolution in living systems.
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- Jia Liu
- Functional and Molecular Imaging Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Department of Radiology, Huaxi MR Research Centre (HMRRC), West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu 610000, P. R. China
- TCM Department, West China Second University Hospital, Chengdu 610000, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Flexible Electronics (KLOFE) & Institute of Advanced Materials (IAM), Nanjing Tech University (NanjingTech), Nanjing 211816, P. R. China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 201804, P. R. China
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- College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Key Laboratory of Functional Inorganic Material Chemistry of Anhui Province, Anhui University, Hefei 230601, P. R. China
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- Chinese Evidence-based Medicine Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, No. 37, Guoxue Lane, Wuhou District, Chengdu 610041, P. R. China
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- School of Pharmacy, Anhui University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Hefei 230012, P. R. China
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- Functional and Molecular Imaging Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province, Department of Radiology, Huaxi MR Research Centre (HMRRC), West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu 610000, P. R. China
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Cheung WM, Chong MC, Sung HHY, Cheng SC, Williams ID, Ko CC, Leung WH. Synthesis, structure and reactivity of iridium complexes containing a bis-cyclometalated tridentate C^N^C ligand. Dalton Trans 2021; 50:8512-8523. [PMID: 34060573 DOI: 10.1039/d1dt01269j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
Abstract
In an effort to synthesize cyclometalated iridium complexes containing a tridentate C^N^C ligand, transmetallation of [Hg(HC^N^C)Cl] (1) (H2C^N^C = 2,6-bis(4-tert-butylphenyl)pyridine) with various organoiridium starting materials has been studied. The treatment of 1 with [Ir(cod)Cl]2 (cod = 1,5-cyclooctadiene) in acetonitrile at room temperature afforded a hexanuclear Ir4Hg2 complex, [Cl(κ2C,N-HC^N^C)(cod)IrHgIr(cod)Cl2]2 (2), which features Ir-Hg-Ir and Ir-Cl-Ir bridges. Refluxing 2 with sodium acetate in tetrahydrofuran (thf) resulted in cyclometalation of the bidentate HC^N^C ligand and formation of trinuclear [(C^N^C)(cod)IrHgIr(cod)Cl2] (3). On the other hand, refluxing [Ir(cod)Cl]2 with 1 and sodium acetate in thf yielded [Ir(C^N^C)(cod)(HgCl)] (4). Chlorination of 4 with PhICl2 gave [Ir(C^N^C)(cod)Cl]·HgCl2 (5·HgCl2) that reacted with tricyclohexylphosphine to yield Hg-free [Ir(C^N^C)(cod)Cl] (5). Chloride abstraction of 5 with silver(i) triflate (AgOTf) gave [Ir(C^N^C)(cod)(H2O)](OTf) (6) that can catalyze the cyclopropanation of styrene with ethyl diazoacetate. Reaction of 1 and [Ir(CO)2Cl(py)] (py = pyridine) with sodium acetate in refluxing thf afforded [Ir(C^N^C)(HgCl)(py)(CO)] (7), in which the carbonyl ligand is coplanar with the C^N^C ligand. On the other hand, refluxing 1 with (PPh4)[Ir(CO)2Cl2] and sodium acetate in acetonitrile gave [Ir(C^N^C)(κ2C,N-HC^N^C)(CO)] (8), the carbonyl ligand of which is trans to the pyridyl ring of the bidentate HC^N^C ligand. Upon irradiation with UV light 8 in thf was isomerized to 8', in which the carbonyl is trans to a phenyl group of the bidentate HC^N^C ligand. The isomer pair 8 and 8' exhibited emission at 548 and 514 nm in EtOH/MeOH at 77 K with lifetime of 84.0 and 64.6 μs, respectively. Protonation of 8 with p-toluenesulfonic acid (TsOH) afforded the bis(bidentate) tosylate complex [Ir(κ2C,N-HC^N^C)2(CO)(OTs)] (9) that could be reconverted to 8 upon treatment with sodium acetate. The electrochemistry of the Ir(C^N^C) complexes has been studied using cyclic voltammetry. Reaction of [Ir(PPh3)3Cl] with 1 and sodium acetate in refluxing thf led to isolation of the previously reported compound [Ir(κ2P,C-C6H4PPh2)2(PPh3)Cl] (10). The crystal structures of 2-5, 8, 8', 9 and 10 have been determined.
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- Wai-Man Cheung
- Department of Chemistry, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China.
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- Department of Chemistry, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China.
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- Department of Chemistry, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China.
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- Department of Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong, Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China.
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- Department of Chemistry, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China.
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- Department of Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong, Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China.
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- Department of Chemistry, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China.
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Bevernaegie R, Wehlin SAM, Elias B, Troian‐Gautier L. A Roadmap Towards Visible Light Mediated Electron Transfer Chemistry with Iridium(III) Complexes. CHEMPHOTOCHEM 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/cptc.202000255] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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- Robin Bevernaegie
- Laboratoire de Chimie Organique CP160/06 Université libre de Bruxelles 50 avenue F. R. Roosevelt 1050 Brussels Belgium
- Institut de la Matière Condensée et des Nanosciences (IMCN) Molecular Chemistry, Materials and Catalysis (MOST) Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain) Place Louis Pasteur 1 box L4.01.02 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve Belgium
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- Laboratoire de Chimie Organique CP160/06 Université libre de Bruxelles 50 avenue F. R. Roosevelt 1050 Brussels Belgium
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- Institut de la Matière Condensée et des Nanosciences (IMCN) Molecular Chemistry, Materials and Catalysis (MOST) Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain) Place Louis Pasteur 1 box L4.01.02 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve Belgium
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- Laboratoire de Chimie Organique CP160/06 Université libre de Bruxelles 50 avenue F. R. Roosevelt 1050 Brussels Belgium
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Otaif HY, Adams SJ, Horton PN, Coles SJ, Beames JM, Pope SJA. Bis-cyclometalated iridium( iii) complexes with terpyridine analogues: syntheses, structures, spectroscopy and computational studies. RSC Adv 2021; 11:39718-39727. [PMID: 35494133 PMCID: PMC9044569 DOI: 10.1039/d1ra07213g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2021] [Accepted: 12/02/2021] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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Two ligands based upon a 2,6-disubstituted pyridine bridge introduce bis-quinoxalinyl units in a fashion that yields analogues to the archetypal terdentate ligand, 2,2′:6′,2′′-terpyridine. The ligands were synthesised from the key intermediate 2,6-bis(bromoacetyl)pyridine: a new, high-yielding route is described for this reagent. Two ligand variants (differentiated by H/Me substituents on the quinoxaline ring) were explored as coordinating moieties for iridium(iii) in the development of luminescent complexes. Computational studies (DFT approaches employing B3LYP, B3LYP/LANL2DZ, and M062X/LANL2DZ levels) were used to investigate the geometric and coordination mode preferences of the new ligands and two possibilities arose from theoretical investigations: [Ir(N^N^N)2]3+ and [Ir(N^N^C)2]+, with the former predicted to be more energetically favourable. Upon synthesis and isolation of the Ir(iii) complexes, X-ray crystallographic studies revealed coordination spheres that were cyclometalated, the structures both showing a [Ir(N^N^C)2]PF6 arrangement. Further spectroscopic characterization via NMR confirmed the ligand arrangements in the complexes, and photophysical studies, supported by DFT, showed that a mixture of metal-to-ligand charge transfer (MLCT) and intra-ligand charge transfer (ILCT) character is likely to contribute to the emission features of the complexes, which phosphoresce orange-red (λem = 580–618 nm). The emission wavelength was influenced by the substituents on the quinoxaline ring (H vs. Me), thereby implying further tuneability is possible with future ligand iterations. Bis-terdentate Ir(iii) complexes incorporate two cyclometalated N^N^C bis-quinoxalinyl type ligands derived from the condensation of 2,6-bis(bromoacetyl)pyridine and different o-phenylenediamines.![]()
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- Haleema Y. Otaif
- School of Chemistry, Main Building, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF10 3AT, UK
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- School of Chemistry, Main Building, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF10 3AT, UK
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- UK National Crystallographic Service, Chemistry, Faculty of Natural and Environmental Sciences, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, England
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- UK National Crystallographic Service, Chemistry, Faculty of Natural and Environmental Sciences, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, England
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- School of Chemistry, Main Building, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF10 3AT, UK
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- School of Chemistry, Main Building, Cardiff University, Cardiff CF10 3AT, UK
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Liu B, Jabed MA, Kilina S, Sun W. Synthesis, Photophysics, and Reverse Saturable Absorption of trans-Bis-cyclometalated Iridium(III) Complexes (C^N^C)Ir(R-tpy) + (tpy = 2,2':6',2″-Terpyridine) with Broadband Excited-State Absorption. Inorg Chem 2020; 59:8532-8542. [PMID: 32497429 DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c00961] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Extending the bandwidth of triplet excited-state absorption in transition-metal complexes is appealing for developing broadband reverse saturable absorbers. Targeting this goal, five bis-terdentate iridium(III) complexes (Ir1-Ir5) bearing trans-bis-cyclometalating (C^N^C) and 4'-R-2,2':6',2″-terpyridine (4'-R-tpy) ligands were synthesized. The effects of the structural variation in cyclometalating ligands and substituents at the tpy ligand on the photophysics of these complexes have been systematically explored using spectroscopic methods (i.e., UV-vis absorption, emission, and transient absorption spectroscopy) and time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) calculations. All complexes exhibited intensely structured 1π,π* absorption bands at <400 nm and broad charge transfer (1CT)/1π,π* transitions at 400-600 nm. Ligand structural variations exerted a very small effect on the energies of the 1CT/1π,π* transitions; however, they had a significant effect on the molar extinction coefficients of these absorption bands. All complexes emitted featureless deep red phosphorescence in solutions at room temperature and gave broad-band and strong triplet excited-state absorption ranging from the visible to the near-infrared (NIR) spectral regions, with both originating from the 3π,π*/3CT states. Although alteration of the ligand structures influenced the emission energies slightly, these changes significantly affected the emission lifetimes and quantum yields, transient absorption spectral features, and the triplet excited-state quantum yields of the complexes. Except for Ir3, the other four complexes all manifested reverse saturable absorption (RSA) upon nanosecond laser pulse excitation at 532 nm, with the decreasing trend of RSA following Ir2 ≈ Ir4 > Ir1 > Ir5 > Ir3. The RSA trend corresponded well with the strength of the excited-state and ground-state absorption differences (ΔOD) at 532 nm for these complexes.
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- Bingqing Liu
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota58108-6050, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota58108-6050, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota58108-6050, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota58108-6050, United States
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Li D, Li G, Che W, Zhu D, Su Z. A remarkable phosphorescent sensor for acid–base vapours based on an AIPE-active Ir(iii) complex. Dalton Trans 2019; 48:1955-1959. [DOI: 10.1039/c8dt04681f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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A novel AIPE-active neutral mononuclear Schiff base ligand Ir(iii) complex has been synthesized for rapid and reversible phosphorescent sensing of acid–base vapours.
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- Dan Li
- Key Laboratory of Nanobiosensing and Nanobioanalysis at Universities of Jilin Province
- Department of Chemistry
- Northeast Normal University
- Changchun
- P.R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Nanobiosensing and Nanobioanalysis at Universities of Jilin Province
- Department of Chemistry
- Northeast Normal University
- Changchun
- P.R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Nanobiosensing and Nanobioanalysis at Universities of Jilin Province
- Department of Chemistry
- Northeast Normal University
- Changchun
- P.R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Nanobiosensing and Nanobioanalysis at Universities of Jilin Province
- Department of Chemistry
- Northeast Normal University
- Changchun
- P.R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Nanobiosensing and Nanobioanalysis at Universities of Jilin Province
- Department of Chemistry
- Northeast Normal University
- Changchun
- P.R. China
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Bevernaegie R, Marcélis L, Moreno-Betancourt A, Laramée-Milette B, Hanan GS, Loiseau F, Sliwa M, Elias B. Ultrafast charge transfer excited state dynamics in trifluoromethyl-substituted iridium(iii) complexes. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2018; 20:27256-27260. [DOI: 10.1039/c8cp04265a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Ultrafast spectroscopic studies on the excited state interplay in trifluoromethyl-substituted iridium(iii) complexes.
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- Robin Bevernaegie
- Université catholique de Louvain (UCL)
- Institut de la Matière Condensée et des Nanosciences (IMCN)
- B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
- Belgium
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- Université catholique de Louvain (UCL)
- Institut de la Matière Condensée et des Nanosciences (IMCN)
- B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
- Belgium
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- Département de Chimie
- Université de Montréal, Montréal
- Québec
- Canada
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- Département de Chimie Moléculaire
- Université Grenoble-Alpes
- CNRS UMR 5250
- BP53 38041 Grenoble
- France
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- Université de Lille
- CNRS
- UMR 8516
- LASIR
- Laboratoire de Spectrochimie Infrarouge et Raman
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- Université catholique de Louvain (UCL)
- Institut de la Matière Condensée et des Nanosciences (IMCN)
- B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
- Belgium
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