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Reversible Diels-Alder Reactions with a Fluorescent Dye on the Surface of Magnetite Nanoparticles.

Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) (2021-02-11)
Siyang He, Guido Kickelbick
ABSTRACT

Diels-Alder reactions on the surface of nanoparticles allow a thermoreversible functionalization of the nanosized building blocks. We report the synthesis of well-defined magnetite nanoparticles by thermal decomposition reaction and their functionalization with maleimide groups. Attachment of these dienophiles was realized by the synthesis of organophosphonate coupling agents and a partial ligand exchange of the original carboxylic acid groups. The functionalized iron oxide particles allow a covalent surface attachment of a furfuryl-functionalized rhodamine B dye by a Diels-Alder reaction at 60 °C. The resulting particles showed the typical fluorescence of rhodamine B. The dye can be cleaved off the particle surface by a retro-Diels-Alder reaction. The study showed that organic functions can be thermoreversibly attached onto inorganic nanoparticles.

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