Modular triazine-based carborane-containing carboxylic acids - synthesis and characterisation of potential boron neutron capture therapy agents made of readily accessible building blocks

Dalton Trans. 2019 Aug 7;48(29):10834-10844. doi: 10.1039/c9dt02130b. Epub 2019 Jun 27.

Abstract

Based on a modular combination of s-triazine, the well-known 9-mercapto-1,7-dicarba-closo-dodecaborane(12) and commercially available carboxylic acids, namely thioglycolic acid, glycine, and Nα-Boc-l-lysine, several carboxylic acid derivatives were synthesised and fully characterised. The thioglycolic acid derivative was introduced into a peptide hormone by solid phase peptide synthesis. High activity and selective internalisation into peptide receptor-expressing cells was observed. With a very high boron content of twenty boron atoms, these derivatives are interesting as selective Boron Neutron Capture Therapy (BNCT) agents.