Structural and photodynamic properties of the anti-cancer drug irinotecan in aqueous solutions of different pHs

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics : PCCP
Maria Rosaria di NunzioAbderrazzak Douhal

Abstract

This work reports on photophysical studies of the irinotecan (IRT) anti-cancer drug in water solutions of different acidities (pH = 1.11-9.46). We found that IRT co-exists as mono-cationic (C1), di-cationic (C2), or neutral (N) forms. The population of each prototropic species depends on the pH of the solution. At pH = 1.11-3.01, the C1 and C2 structures are stabilized. At pH = 7.00, the most populated species is C1, while at pH values larger than 9.46 the N form is the most stable species. In the 1.11-2.61 pH range, the C1* emission is efficiently quenched by protons to give rise to the emission from C2*. The dynamic quenching constant, KD, is ∼32 M-1. While the diffusion governs the rate of excited-state proton-transfer (ESPT) under these conditions, the reaction rate increases with the proton concentration. A two-step diffusive Debye-Smoluchowski model was applied at pH = 1.11-2.61 to describe the protonation of C1*. The ESPT time constants derived for C1* are 382 and 1720 ps at pH = 1.11 and 1.95, respectively. We found that one proton species is involved in the protonation of C1* to give C2*, in the analyzed acidic pH range. Under alkaline conditions (pH = 9.46), the N form is the most stable structure of IRT. These result...Continue Reading

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