Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona, ICMAB-CSIC, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain.
Molecules. 2023 May 30;28(11):4449. doi: 10.3390/molecules28114449.
Traditionally, drugs were obtained by extraction from medicinal plants, but more recently also by organic synthesis. Today, medicinal chemistry continues to focus on organic compounds and the majority of commercially available drugs are organic molecules, which can incorporate nitrogen, oxygen, and halogens, as well as carbon and hydrogen. Aromatic organic compounds that play important roles in biochemistry find numerous applications ranging from drug delivery to nanotechnology or biomarkers. We achieved a major accomplishment by demonstrating experimentally/theoretically that boranes, carboranes, as well as metallabis(dicarbollides), exhibit global 3D aromaticity. Based on the stability-aromaticity relationship, as well as on the progress made in the synthesis of derivatized clusters, we have opened up new applications of boron icosahedral clusters as key components in the field of novel healthcare materials. In this brief review, we present the results obtained at the Laboratory of Inorganic Materials and Catalysis (LMI) of the Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC) with icosahedral boron clusters. These 3D geometric shape clusters, the semi-metallic nature of boron and the presence of -cluster hydrogen atoms that can interact with biomolecules through non-covalent hydrogen and dihydrogen bonds, play a key role in endowing these compounds with unique properties in largely unexplored (bio)materials.
传统上,药物是从药用植物中提取得到的,但最近也可以通过有机合成得到。如今,药物化学继续专注于有机化合物,大多数商业上可用的药物都是有机分子,这些分子可以包含氮、氧和卤素,以及碳和氢。在生物化学中发挥重要作用的芳香有机化合物在从药物输送到纳米技术或生物标志物的众多应用中找到了用途。我们通过实验/理论证明硼烷、卡硼烷以及金属双(二碳硼烷)表现出全局 3D 芳香性,这是一项重大成就。基于稳定性-芳香性关系,以及在衍生化簇合成方面取得的进展,我们为硼二十面体簇作为新型医疗保健材料领域的关键组成部分开辟了新的应用。在这篇简要综述中,我们展示了在巴塞罗那材料科学研究所(ICMAB-CSIC)无机材料和催化实验室(LMI)用二十面体硼簇获得的结果。这些具有 3D 几何形状的团簇、硼的半金属性质以及-簇氢原子的存在,这些氢原子可以通过非共价氢键和双氢键与生物分子相互作用,在赋予这些化合物在很大程度上尚未探索的(生物)材料中独特性质方面发挥着关键作用。