Coaggregate of amphiphilic zinc chlorins with synthetic surfactants in an aqueous medium to an artificial supramolecular light-harvesting system
Miyatake, T.; Tamiaki, H.; Fujiwara, M.; Matsushita, T.
Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry 12(9): 2173-2178
2004
ISSN/ISBN: 0968-0896
PMID: 15080917
DOI: 10.1016/j.bmc.2004.02.021
Accession: 011870784
Aqueous assemblies of zinc chlorins possessing a nonionic (oligo)oxyethylene, a cationic quaternary ammonium or an anionic sulfonate group were prepared in the presence of a synthetic surfactant. The nonionic zinc chlorin formed aggregates when admixed with a nonionic surfactant such as Triton X-100 to give a highly ordered oligomeric J-aggregate similarly as natural bacteriochlorophyll-c or d does in a chlorosome. In addition, the coassemblies of the cationic zinc chlorin with an anionic surfactant and of the anionic zinc chlorin with a cationic surfactant gave large oligomers of these chlorophyllous pigments. The structures of hydrophilic groups in both the zinc chlorin and surfactant molecules controlled their aqueous coassemblies.