Preparation of highly photosensitizing liposomes with fullerene-doped lipid bilayer using dispersion-controllable molecular exchange reactions

Org Lett. 2008 Sep 18;10(18):4077-80. doi: 10.1021/ol8015918. Epub 2008 Aug 16.

Abstract

Fullerene-containing liposomes with high photosensitization ability were prepared. Disaggregated fullerenes were efficiently injected into the bilayer of liposomes by a phototriggered molecular exchange reaction. These liposomes showed far higher photoreactivity than liposomes thermally produced by heating and microwave irradiation. This result indicates that control of self-aggregation of fullerene leads to a high quantum yield for the photoreaction because of the suppression of self-quenching of photoexcited fullerenes.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Cyclodextrins / chemistry
  • Drug Carriers / chemical synthesis
  • Drug Carriers / chemistry
  • Fullerenes / chemistry*
  • Lipid Bilayers / chemistry*
  • Liposomes / chemical synthesis*
  • Liposomes / chemistry
  • Photosensitizing Agents / chemical synthesis*
  • Photosensitizing Agents / chemistry

Substances

  • Cyclodextrins
  • Drug Carriers
  • Fullerenes
  • Lipid Bilayers
  • Liposomes
  • Photosensitizing Agents
  • fullerene C60