Lipophilic ruthenium salen complexes: incorporation into liposome bilayers and photoinduced release of nitric oxide

Keita Nakanishi; Tomomi Koshiyama; Soichi Iba; Masaaki Ohba

doi:10.1039/c5dt02352a

Lipophilic ruthenium salen complexes: incorporation into liposome bilayers and photoinduced release of nitric oxide

Dalton Trans. 2015 Aug 28;44(32):14200-3. doi: 10.1039/c5dt02352a.

Authors

Keita Nakanishi¹, Tomomi Koshiyama, Soichi Iba, Masaaki Ohba

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Kyushu University, 6-10-1 Hakozaki, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, Japan. ohba@chem.kyushu-univ.jp koshi@chem.kyushu-univ.jp.

PMID: 26200295
DOI: 10.1039/c5dt02352a

Abstract

A new lipophilic Ru salen complex with cholesterol groups can be efficiently incorporated into liposome bilayers, allowing the photoinduced release of nitric oxide (NO) and the membrane transport of NO to coexisting liposomes.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Crystallography, X-Ray
Ethylenediamines / chemistry*
Liposomes*
Molecular Structure
Nitric Oxide / metabolism*
Photochemistry*
Ruthenium Compounds / chemistry*

Substances

Ethylenediamines
Liposomes
Ruthenium Compounds
Nitric Oxide
disalicylaldehyde ethylenediamine