David Baumann

The Mammana group at the University of Dayton recently reported the self assembly of charged porphyrins onto a chiral substrate in the Journal Chirality. Charged water soluble porphyrins were used to produce chiral self-assembled structures by templating on to  the chiral templates D or L polyglutamic acid.  The negatively charged porphyrin, meso-Tetra(4-sulfonatophenyl)porphine  cat. No. T1239,

Olga A. Ryazanova, et. al. recently reported the synthesis and evaluation of a pheophorbide a phenazinium dye conjugate which is effective as a probe for G-quadruplex structures of nucleic acids. The fluorescence band of the aminophenazinium dye overlaps with the absorption band of pheophorbide a , resulting in the quenching of the phenazinium moiety by

Recent work at Shanghai University by the Chen group was published in Microchimica Acta reporting a surface plasmon resonance biosensor for the determination of brain natriuretic peptide. Detection was accomplished by binding of the peptide to an amine functionalized aptamer probe. Pyridinium porphyrin-mediated Au nanoparticle composites were used to amplify the SPR signal. Thanks for

Cat. No: D40922 Cat. No: T40637 TyroSphere nanoparticles consisting of the triblock polymer [poly(ethyleneglycol)-block-oligio(desaminotyrosine octyl ester suberate)-block -poly(ethyleneglycol)] aggregates were loaded with amphiphilic porphyrins as reported by Tsubone, et al. Meso-cis-di(N-methyl-4-pyridyl)diphenylporphine dichloride Cat. No: D40922 , which is a positively charged porphyrin and meso-cis-di(4-sulfonatophenyl)-diphenylporphine dihydrochloride Cat. No: T40637, a negatively charged porphyrin were used. The