Design of Iron chelators: Syntheses and iron (III) complexing abilities of tripodal tris-bidentate ligands
Open Access
- 1 August 2006
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in BioMetals
- Vol. 19 (4), 349-366
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s10534-005-2997-2
Abstract
The interest in synthetic siderophore mimics includes therapeutic applications (iron chelation therapy), the design of more effective agents to deliver Fe to plants and the development of new chemical tools in order to study iron metabolism and iron assimilation processes in living systems. The design of ligands needs a rational approach for the understanding of the metal ion complexing abilities. The octahedral arrangement of donor atoms is the most favourable geometry, allowing the maximum possible distance between their formal or partial negative charges. Hexadentate chelators, usually of the tris-bidentate type, can accommodate the metal coordination sphere and are well-suited to obtain high pFe values. The first part of this review is dedicated to selected synthetic routes, taking into account (i) the nature of the chelating subunits, connecting groups and spacers, (ii) the water-solubility and hydrophilic/lipophilic balance, (iii) the chirality and (iv) the possibility of grafting probes or vectors. In the second part, we discuss the role of the molecular design on complexing abilities (thermodynamics and kinetics). The bidentate 8-hydroxyquinoline moiety offers an alternative to the usual coordinating hydroxamic acids, catechols and/or α-hydroxycarboxylic acids groups encountered in natural siderophores. The promizing results obtained with the tris-hydroxyquinoline-based ligand O -TRENSOX are summarized. O -TRENSOX exhibits a high and selective affinity for Fe(III) complexation. Its efficiency in delivering Fe to plants, iron mobilization, cell protection, and antiproliferative effects has been evidenced. Other chelators derived from O -TRENSOX (mixed catechol/8-hydroxyquinoline ligands, lipophilic ligands) are also described. Some results question the relevance of partition coefficients to foresee the activity of iron chelators. The development of probes (fluorescent, radioactive, spin labelled) based on the O -TRENSOX backbone is in progress in order to get insights in the complicated iron metabolism processes.Keywords
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